Intel Core i5-8600K vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2

Core i5-8600K vs Xeon E5-2696 v2 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-8600K beats the Xeon E5-2696 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2696 v2 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-8600K. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-8600K. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8600K.

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 i5-8600K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.