Intel Core i7-5820K vs Intel Xeon E5-2650 v3

Core i7-5820K vs Xeon E5-2650 v3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-5820K beats the Xeon E5-2650 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2650 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2650 v3 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-5820K. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2650 v3 has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i7-5820K. It also has more threads than the Core i7-5820K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-5820K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2650 v3. Also, the Core i7-5820K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2650 v3 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.

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.