Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 vs Intel Core i5-13600K

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 10 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 105.77
$ 193.62 significantly less expensive
$ 299.39

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4438 points
12139 points
173% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4819 points
14231 points
195% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4302 points
11472 points
166% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4265 points
11341 points
165% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.42 points
308.32 points
207% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3964 points
14478 points
265% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

549 points
2652 points
383% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3854 points
14998 points
289% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

563 points
2681 points
376% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

10
25% slightly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20
66% significantly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz
3 GHz
7% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz
5.1 GHz
41% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

115 W
8% slightly lower TDP
125 W

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

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

396th of 1,089
48th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v2 Family
13th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August
2022 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
Yes

Xeon E5-2680 v2 vs Core i5-13600K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13600K is faster than the Xeon E5-2680 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2680 v2 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2680 v2 has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i5-13600K has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13600K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-13600K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2680 v2. Also, the Core i5-13600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-2680 v2 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-13600K CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 E5-2680 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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