Intel Xeon E5-2687W vs Intel Core i5-13420H

Compare Intel Xeon E5 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

4113 points
5252 points
27% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4879 points
7672 points
57% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3854 points
4530 points
17% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3775 points
4376 points
15% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

87.34 points
120.41 points
37% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
Identical
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.10 GHz
47% significantly higher clock speed
2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz
4.6 GHz
21% slightly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

40
42% many more pcie lanes
28

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

256 GiB
300% significantly more supported memory
64 GiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
7 MiB
250% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

20 MiB
66% significantly more L3 cache
12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

426th of 1,089
316th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family
13th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February
2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR5-5200

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
No

Xeon E5-2687W vs Core i5-13420H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2687W beats the Core i5-13420H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-13420H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Xeon E5-2687W has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2687W has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13420H. Despite this, the Core i5-13420H has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i5-13420H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E5-2687W. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2687W has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-13420H.

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 Xeon E5-2687W has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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