Intel Core i7-5930K vs Intel Xeon X5670

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

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Intel Xeon X5670

Price

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$ 589.95

$ 88.88

$ 501.07 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3870 points

24% slightly better overall score

3118 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5431 points

27% slightly better gaming score

4250 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3361 points

22% slightly better multitasking score

2751 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3246 points

21% slightly better heavy workload score

2664 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

98.86 points

90% significantly higher Blender score

51.81 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5398 points

123% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2417 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1136 points

141% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

470 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5677 points

145% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2310 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1222 points

148% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

491 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

19% slightly higher clock speed

2.93 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

3.33 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W

95 W

47% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

33% slightly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

288 GiB

350% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

448th of 1,089

522nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2010 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-5930K vs Xeon X5670 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-5930K performs better than the Xeon X5670. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X5670 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-5930K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon X5670. Also, the Core i7-5930K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon X5670 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.

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.