Intel Core i7-5930K vs Intel Xeon E5-2620

Compare Intel Core X-series 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2620

Price

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$ 589.95

$ 207.15

$ 382.80 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3870 points

43% significantly better overall score

2694 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5431 points

69% significantly better gaming score

3212 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3361 points

32% slightly better multitasking score

2534 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3246 points

29% slightly better heavy workload score

2503 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

98.86 points

153% significantly higher Blender score

38.93 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5398 points

93% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2793 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1136 points

147% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

459 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5677 points

198% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1902 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1222 points

213% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

390 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

3.5 GHz

75% significantly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

47% significantly higher turbo speed

2.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W

95 W

47% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

384 GiB

499% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

448th of 1,089

591st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2012 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 i7-5930K vs Xeon E5-2620 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-5930K is faster than the Xeon E5-2620. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2620 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 significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2620. Also, the Core i7-5930K has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2620 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.