Intel Core i7-5930K vs Intel Xeon E5-2650 v3

Compare Intel Core X-series 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 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
$ 194.09
$ 395.86 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3870 points
4924 points
27% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5431 points
18% slightly better gaming score
4566 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3361 points
5084 points
51% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3246 points
5215 points
60% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

98.86 points
112.68 points
13% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5398 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
5202 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1136 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
855 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5677 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
5366 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1222 points
35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
899 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
52% significantly higher clock speed
2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
23% slightly higher turbo speed
3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W
105 W
33% slightly 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
355th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series
Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August
2014 August

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 E5-2650 v3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2650 v3 is faster than the Core i7-5930K. Despite this, the Core i7-5930K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2650 v3 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-5930K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2650 v3. Also, the Core i7-5930K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2650 v3 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.

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