Intel Core i7-5820K vs Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3

Compare Intel Core X-series 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3

Price

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$ 429.95

$ 149.95

$ 280.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4081 points

27% slightly better overall score

3203 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5494 points

28% slightly better gaming score

4260 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3634 points

26% slightly better multitasking score

2869 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3527 points

26% slightly better heavy workload score

2793 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

95.66 points

27% slightly higher Blender score

75.06 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5383 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

3929 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1134 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

901 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5467 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4121 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1180 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

947 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

3.3 GHz

37% slightly higher clock speed

2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

12% slightly higher turbo speed

3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W

85 W

64% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

42% many more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

768 GiB

1100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

428th of 1,089

510th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-5820K vs Xeon E5-2620 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-5820K beats the Xeon E5-2620 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2620 v3 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-5820K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2620 v3. Also, the Core i7-5820K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2620 v3 outputs less heat than Core i7-5820K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-5820K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.