Intel Core i5-9600K vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs Intel 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4450 points

5240 points

17% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7080 points

36% slightly better gaming score

5199 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3627 points

5238 points

44% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3488 points

5217 points

49% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

94.07 points

103.15 points

9% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5629 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

4163 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1529 points

206% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

499 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6212 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4084 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1679 points

214% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

534 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

300% significantly more threads

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

394th of 1,089

320th of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-9600K vs Xeon E5-2696 v2 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-9600K is faster than the Xeon E5-2696 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2696 v2 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i5-9600K has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-9600K.

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 i5-9600K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.