Intel Core i7-9700K vs Intel Xeon E5-2665

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i7 8 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2665

Price

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$ 199.43

$ 106.93

$ 92.50 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5644 points

1% slightly better overall score

5548 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8019 points

75% significantly better gaming score

4569 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4848 points

5916 points

22% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4655 points

6106 points

31% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

133.80 points

83% significantly higher Blender score

73.09 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7073 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

4404 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1627 points

183% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

573 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7273 points

156% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2832 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1702 points

276% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

452 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

49% significantly higher clock speed

2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz

58% significantly higher turbo speed

3.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

21% slightly lower TDP

115 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

384 GiB

200% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

282nd of 1,089

288th of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i7

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 November

2012 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-9700K vs Xeon E5-2665 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-9700K beats the Xeon E5-2665 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2665 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Xeon E5-2665 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-9700K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2665. Also, the Core i7-9700K has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-9700K CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2665 CPU because of its 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. For instance, the Core i7-9700K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.