Intel Xeon E5-1620 v4 vs Intel Core i9-14900K

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 4 core CPU vs Intel Core i9 (14th gen) 24 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 204.35
$ 234.64 significantly less expensive
$ 438.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2777 points
16106 points
479% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4309 points
15771 points
266% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2303 points
16300 points
607% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2209 points
16541 points
648% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

65.44 points
506.50 points
673% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4033 points
20147 points
399% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1125 points
3053 points
171% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
24
499% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
32
300% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
9% slightly higher clock speed
3.2 GHz

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

40
100% significantly more pcie lanes
20

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

576th of 1,089
16th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family
Core i9 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May
2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600
DDR5-5600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
Yes

Xeon E5-1620 v4 vs Core i9-14900K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-14900K is faster than the Xeon E5-1620 v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1620 v4 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-14900K has significantly more cores with 24 cores whereas the Xeon E5-1620 v4 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1620 v4. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-1620 v4 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-14900K.

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 Xeon E5-1620 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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