Intel Core i5-9600K vs Intel Xeon E5-2640 v4

Core i5-9600K vs Xeon E5-2640 v4 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-9600K beats the Xeon E5-2640 v4 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2640 v4 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2640 v4 has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i5-9600K that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-9600K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-9600K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2640 v4. Also, the Core i5-9600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2640 v4 outputs less heat than Core i5-9600K thanks to a 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 i5-9600K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.