Intel Core i9-8950HK vs Intel Xeon E3-1220 v5

Core i9-8950HK vs Xeon E3-1220 v5 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-8950HK beats the Xeon E3-1220 v5 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1220 v5 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-8950HK has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Xeon E3-1220 v5 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1220 v5. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1220 v5 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-8950HK. Despite this, the Core i9-8950HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-8950HK CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1220 v5 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i9-8950HK has more L2 cache than the Xeon E3-1220 v5. The Core i9-8950HK also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i9-8950HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.