Intel Core i9-11900K vs Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i9 8 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 559.99
$ 717.91 significantly less expensive
$ 1277.90

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8281 points
8324 points
0.52% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10754 points
73% significantly better gaming score
6186 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7475 points
9116 points
21% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7270 points
9598 points
32% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

212.26 points
224.42 points
5% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11108 points
34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
8264 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2402 points
126% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1062 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
32
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
34% slightly higher clock speed
2.60 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.3 GHz
47% significantly higher turbo speed
3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W
16% slightly lower TDP
145 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

20
40
100% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
4
100% significantly more memory channels

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
Identical
4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
40 MiB
150% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

136th of 1,089
134th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i9
Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February
2016 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i9-11900K vs Xeon E5-2697A v4 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-11900K is faster than the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2697A v4 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i9-11900K has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11900K. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-11900K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Also, the Core i9-11900K has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-11900K CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2697A v4 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Xeon E5-2697A v4 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i9-11900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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