Intel Core i7-2600K vs Intel Xeon E5-2620

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2620

Price

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$ 84.99

$ 122.16 significantly less expensive

$ 207.15

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2571 points

2694 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4067 points

26% slightly better gaming score

3212 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2123 points

2534 points

19% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2039 points

2503 points

22% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

44.04 points

13% slightly higher Blender score

38.93 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2292 points

2793 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

665 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

459 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2289 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1902 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

665 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

390 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

69% significantly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

52% significantly higher turbo speed

2.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

Identical

95 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

384 GiB

1100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

612th of 1,089

591st 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 E5-2620 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2620 is faster than the Core i7-2600K. Despite this, the Core i7-2600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2620 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-2600K has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-2600K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-2600K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2620. Also, the Core i7-2600K has a significantly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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. Indeed, the Core i7-2600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.