Intel Core i9-9980HK vs Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i9 8 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 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

3558 points

5079 points

42% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4626 points

5205 points

12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3403 points

5069 points

48% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3616 points

5131 points

41% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

132.90 points

17% slightly higher Blender score

113.01 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6312 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

5241 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1386 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1004 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6310 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

5384 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1411 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1040 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz

2.6 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

47% significantly higher turbo speed

3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

100% significantly lower TDP

90 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

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

480th of 1,089

341st of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i9

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 May

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i9-9980HK vs Xeon E5-2640 v3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 is faster than the Core i9-9980HK. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-9980HK in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-9980HK. Despite this, the Core i9-9980HK has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-9980HK CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2640 v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i9-9980HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.