Intel Core i7-5820K vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2

Core i7-5820K vs Xeon E5-2696 v2 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2696 v2 performs better 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 E5-2696 v2 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i7-5820K has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-5820K.

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.