Intel Core i7-5930K vs Intel Xeon E5-2660 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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Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3

Price

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$ 589.95

$ 189.95

$ 400.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3870 points

3996 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5431 points

28% slightly better gaming score

4213 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3361 points

3900 points

16% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3246 points

3849 points

18% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

98.86 points

129.03 points

30% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5398 points

5920 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1136 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

975 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5677 points

5959 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1222 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

985 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

66% significantly 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

12% slightly higher turbo speed

3.3 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

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

436th 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

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-5930K vs Xeon E5-2660 v3 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-5930K is faster than the Xeon E5-2660 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2660 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2660 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-5930K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2660 v3. Also, the Core i7-5930K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2660 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.

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.