Intel Core i7-5820K vs Intel Xeon X5680

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

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Intel Xeon X5680

Price

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$ 429.95

$ 147.98

$ 281.97 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4081 points

4570 points

11% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5494 points

22% slightly better gaming score

4503 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3634 points

4578 points

25% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3527 points

4568 points

29% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

95.66 points

69% significantly higher Blender score

56.43 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5383 points

108% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2584 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1134 points

111% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

535 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5467 points

120% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2476 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1180 points

121% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

532 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

3.33 GHz

0.79% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

Identical

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W

130 W

7% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

33% slightly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

288 GiB

350% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

445th of 1,118

400th of 1,118

Family

The product line

Core X-series

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2010 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-5820K vs Xeon X5680 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon X5680 is faster than the Core i7-5820K. Despite this, the Core i7-5820K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon X5680 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-5820K. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The Xeon X5680 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.