Intel Core i7-5820K vs Intel Xeon E5-2687W

Core i7-5820K vs Xeon E5-2687W comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2687W is faster than the Core i7-5820K. Despite this, the Core i7-5820K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2687W 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 E5-2687W. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2687W has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-5820K CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2687W CPU because of its slightly 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.