Intel Core i7-5930K vs Intel Xeon E5-2630 v4

Compare Intel Core X-series 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 589.95
$ 249.95
$ 340.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3870 points
3% slightly better overall score
3728 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5431 points
32% slightly better gaming score
4090 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3361 points
3611 points
7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3246 points
3586 points
10% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

98.86 points
122.88 points
24% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5398 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
5341 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1136 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
923 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5677 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
5264 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1222 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
963 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
10
66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
20
66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
59% significantly higher clock speed
2.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
19% slightly higher turbo speed
3.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W
85 W
64% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

40
Identical
40

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
Identical
4

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

448th of 1,089
458th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series
Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August
2016 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600
DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i7-5930K vs Xeon E5-2630 v4 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-5930K beats the Xeon E5-2630 v4 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2630 v4 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2630 v4 has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i7-5930K has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-5930K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-5930K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2630 v4. Also, the Core i7-5930K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2630 v4 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.

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 i7-5930K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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