Intel Core i9-8950HK vs Intel Xeon E5-2420

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2143 points
0.14% slightly better overall score
2140 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3261 points
9% slightly better gaming score
2978 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1816 points
1875 points
3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1755 points
1814 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.61 points
135% significantly higher Blender score
36.28 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4580 points
73% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2643 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1270 points
180% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
453 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5219 points
187% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1814 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1422 points
276% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
378 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz
52% significantly higher clock speed
1.9 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz
100% significantly higher turbo speed
2.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
111% significantly lower TDP
95 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
24
49% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
3
49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB
384 GiB
499% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

698th of 1,092
699th of 1,092

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i9
Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May
2012 May

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

No
Yes

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