Intel Core i9-8950HK vs Intel Xeon E5-2640

Core i9-8950HK vs Xeon E5-2640 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-8950HK is faster than the Xeon E5-2640. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2640 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-8950HK has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2640. Also, the Core i9-8950HK has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-8950HK CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2640 CPU because of its significantly 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 E5-2640 also has slightly 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.