Intel Core i7-2600K vs Intel Xeon E5-1620

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-1620

Price

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$ 84.99

$ 68.09 significantly less expensive

$ 153.08

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2571 points

2735 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4067 points

4274 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2123 points

2280 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2039 points

2192 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

44.04 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

40.70 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2292 points

0.35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2284 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

665 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

592 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2289 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2244 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

665 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

611 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

3.6 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

Identical

3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

36% slightly lower TDP

130 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

375 GiB

1071% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

612th of 1,089

582nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2012 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-2600K vs Xeon E5-1620 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-1620 performs better than the Core i7-2600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-2600K in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-1620 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-2600K. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. A Core i7-2600K CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1620 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. Indeed, the Core i7-2600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.