Intel Core i5-8600 vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs Intel 18 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4056 points
6495 points
60% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6549 points
14% slightly better gaming score
5724 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3280 points
6803 points
107% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3148 points
6991 points
122% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.30 points
231.70 points
171% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4766 points
7392 points
55% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1335 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1060 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5012 points
8186 points
63% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1461 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1134 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
18
200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

6
36
499% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
123% significantly lower TDP
145 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

431st of 1,089
221st of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-8600 vs Xeon E5-2696 v3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 beats the Core i5-8600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8600 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-8600. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has 18 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-8600. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8600. A Core i5-8600 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2696 v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the Core i5-8600 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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