Intel Core i7-5820K vs Intel Xeon E5-2643 v2

Core i7-5820K vs Xeon E5-2643 v2 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2643 v2 beats the Core i7-5820K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-5820K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 E5-2643 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-5820K. Also, the Xeon E5-2643 v2 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2643 v2 outputs less heat than Core i7-5820K thanks to a slightly lower TDP. 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 i7-5820K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.