Intel Core i9-9880H vs Intel Xeon E5-2667 v2

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i9 8 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4654 points
4% slightly better overall score
4456 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6160 points
10% slightly better gaming score
5563 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4177 points
2% slightly better multitasking score
4086 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4061 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score
3980 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

128.53 points
41% slightly higher Blender score
90.62 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6191 points
48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
4156 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1327 points
102% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
655 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6125 points
53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
3992 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1369 points
111% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
647 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
Identical
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.30 GHz
3.3 GHz
43% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz
20% slightly higher turbo speed
4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
188% significantly lower TDP
130 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
40
150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
4
100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
768 GiB
499% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

374th of 1,089
392nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i9
Xeon E5 v2 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 May
2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i9-9880H vs Xeon E5-2667 v2 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-9880H is faster than the Xeon E5-2667 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2667 v2 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2667 v2 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-9880H. Despite this, the Core i9-9880H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-9880H CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2667 v2 CPU because of its significantly 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. Indeed, the Core i9-9880H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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