Intel Core i7-5820K vs Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3

Core i7-5820K vs Xeon E5-2640 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 beats the Core i7-5820K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-5820K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-5820K has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-5820K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-5820K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2640 v3. Also, the Core i7-5820K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2640 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.

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 i7-5820K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.