Intel Core i7-5930K vs Intel Xeon E5-2643

Core i7-5930K vs Xeon E5-2643 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-5930K beats the Xeon E5-2643 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2643 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-5930K has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-2643. Indeed, the Core i7-5930K has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E5-2643. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2643. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-5930K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2643. Also, the Core i7-5930K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2643 outputs less heat than Core i7-5930K thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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