Intel Core i7-5930K vs Intel Xeon E-2186M

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3870 points
4251 points
9% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5431 points
5667 points
4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3361 points
3818 points
13% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3246 points
3707 points
14% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

98.86 points
8% slightly higher Blender score
90.89 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5677 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
5235 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1222 points
1426 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

3.5 GHz
20% slightly higher clock speed
2.9 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
4.8 GHz
29% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W
45 W
211% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

40
150% significantly more pcie lanes
16

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB
Identical
64 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

448th of 1,089
416th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series
Xeon E

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August
2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600
DDR4-2666

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i7-5930K vs Xeon E-2186M specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E-2186M beats the Core i7-5930K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-5930K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-5930K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E-2186M. Despite this, the Xeon E-2186M has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E-2186M outputs less heat than Core i7-5930K thanks to a significantly 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 i7-5930K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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