Intel Xeon E5-1660 v3 vs Intel Core i5-13600K

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 8 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i5 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-13600K

Price

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$ 199.26

$ 100.13 significantly less expensive

$ 299.39

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4392 points

12139 points

176% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5377 points

14231 points

164% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4064 points

11472 points

182% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3979 points

11341 points

185% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

148.95 points

308.32 points

106% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8091 points

14478 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1373 points

2652 points

93% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7100 points

14998 points

111% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1291 points

2681 points

107% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz

Identical

3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

5.1 GHz

45% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W

125 W

11% slightly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

100% 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

768 GiB

499% significantly more supported memory

128 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

401st of 1,089

48th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

13th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2022 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1333

DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-1660 v3 vs Core i5-13600K benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-13600K performs better than the Xeon E5-1660 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1660 v3 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Xeon E5-1660 v3 has more threads. In terms of clock speed, the Xeon E5-1660 v3 and Core i5-13600K are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i5-13600K has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-13600K outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1660 v3 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 Xeon E5-1660 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.