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

Compare Intel Core X-series 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 429.95
$ 398.95
$ 31.00 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4081 points
4657 points
14% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5494 points
8% slightly better gaming score
5043 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3634 points
4542 points
24% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3527 points
4510 points
27% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5383 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
4201 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1134 points
61% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
702 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5467 points
70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
3212 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1180 points
83% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
642 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz
3.5 GHz
6% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz
3.8 GHz
5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W
130 W
7% slightly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

28
40
42% many more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
Identical
4

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
373rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series
Xeon E5 v2 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August
2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600
DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

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

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-5820K beats the Xeon E5-2643 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2643 v2 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 E5-2643 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.

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