Intel Core i5-8600K vs Intel Xeon Silver 4210R

Core i5-8600K vs Xeon Silver 4210R specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon Silver 4210R beats the Core i5-8600K in overall performance. 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 Silver 4210R has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i5-8600K that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8600K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-8600K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon Silver 4210R. Also, the Core i5-8600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-8600K CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon Silver 4210R CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Core i5-8600K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.