Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3 vs Intel Core i5-13420H

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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5079 points

5252 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5205 points

7672 points

47% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5069 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

4530 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5131 points

17% slightly better heavy workload score

4376 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

113.01 points

120.41 points

6% slightly higher Blender 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

2.6 GHz

23% slightly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

4.6 GHz

35% slightly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

42% many 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

1100% significantly more supported memory

64 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

341st of 1,089

316th 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

2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR5-5200

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2640 v3 vs Core i5-13420H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 is faster than the Core i5-13420H. Despite this, the Core i5-13420H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13420H. Despite this, the Core i5-13420H has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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 E5-2640 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.