Intel Core i5-8600K vs Intel Xeon E5-2673 v3

Core i5-8600K vs Xeon E5-2673 v3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2673 v3 beats the Core i5-8600K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-8600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2673 v3 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-8600K. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2673 v3 has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-8600K. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8600K. A Core i5-8600K CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2673 v3 CPU because of its slightly 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.