Intel Core i7-5930K vs Intel Xeon E5-2650 v2

Compare Intel Core X-series 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 589.95
$ 185.00
$ 404.95 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3870 points
2% slightly better overall score
3764 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5431 points
19% slightly better gaming score
4552 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3361 points
3492 points
3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3246 points
3415 points
5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

98.86 points
37% slightly higher Blender score
71.99 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5398 points
66% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
3234 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1136 points
115% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
528 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5677 points
79% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
3167 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1222 points
135% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
518 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
34% slightly higher clock speed
2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
8% slightly higher turbo speed
3.4 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

40
Identical
40

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
Identical
4

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB
768 GiB
1100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

448th of 1,089
454th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series
Xeon E5 v2 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August
2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600
DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i7-5930K vs Xeon E5-2650 v2 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-5930K is faster than the Xeon E5-2650 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2650 v2 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2650 v2 has slightly more cores with 8 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 slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2650 v2. Also, the Core i7-5930K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2650 v2 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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