Intel Core i9-9900K vs Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3

Core i9-9900K vs Xeon E5-2620 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-9900K beats the Xeon E5-2620 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2620 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-9900K has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2620 v3 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2620 v3. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-9900K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2620 v3. Also, the Core i9-9900K has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2620 v3 outputs less heat than Core i9-9900K thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i9-9900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.