Intel Core i5-9600KF vs Intel Xeon X5680

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

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Intel Xeon X5680

Price

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$ 269.95

$ 147.98

$ 121.97 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4518 points

4570 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7209 points

60% significantly better gaming score

4503 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3673 points

4578 points

24% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3525 points

4568 points

29% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

88.50 points

56% significantly higher Blender score

56.43 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5456 points

111% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2584 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1503 points

180% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

535 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5909 points

138% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2476 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1634 points

207% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

532 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

11% slightly higher clock speed

3.33 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

27% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

36% slightly lower TDP

130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

288 GiB

125% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

7214% significantly more L2 cache

0.02 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

9 MiB

800% significantly more L3 cache

1 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

388th of 1,089

383rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i5

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 February

2010 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-9600KF vs Xeon X5680 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-9600KF is faster than the Xeon X5680. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X5680 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Xeon X5680 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-9600KF has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon X5680. Also, the Core i5-9600KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-9600KF CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5680 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-9600KF has more L2 cache than the Xeon X5680. The Core i5-9600KF also has significantly more L3 cache.

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