Intel Xeon E5-2689 vs Intel Core i5-13600K

Compare Intel 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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$ 109.95

$ 189.44 significantly less expensive

$ 299.39

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4209 points

12139 points

188% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4875 points

14231 points

191% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3976 points

11472 points

188% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3900 points

11341 points

190% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

78.82 points

308.32 points

291% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

115 W

8% slightly lower TDP

125 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

418th of 1,089

48th of 1,089

Family

The product line

13th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2689 vs Core i5-13600K specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-13600K performs better than the Xeon E5-2689. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2689 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Xeon E5-2689 has more threads. A Xeon E5-2689 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.

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 E5-2689 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.