Intel Core i5-8600K vs Intel Xeon E5-1660 v3

Core i5-8600K vs Xeon E5-1660 v3 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-1660 v3 is faster than the Core i5-8600K. Despite this, the Core i5-8600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-1660 v3 has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-8600K that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8600K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-8600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-1660 v3. Also, the Core i5-8600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-8600K CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1660 v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the Core i5-8600K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.