Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4 vs Intel Core i5-13500H

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 16 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i5 12 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

8324 points
28% slightly better overall score
6478 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6186 points
8783 points
41% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9116 points
57% significantly better multitasking score
5800 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9598 points
69% significantly better heavy workload score
5655 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

224.42 points
34% slightly higher Blender score
166.36 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
33% slightly more cores
12

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
100% significantly more threads
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.60 GHz
0.04% slightly higher clock speed
2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz
4.7 GHz
30% 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

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
9 MiB
125% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

40 MiB
122% significantly more L3 cache
18 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

134th of 1,089
222nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family
13th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February
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
No

Xeon E5-2697A v4 vs Core i5-13500H benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 is faster than the Core i5-13500H. Despite this, the Core i5-13500H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has slightly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i5-13500H that has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13500H. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13500H. Despite this, the Core i5-13500H has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i5-13500H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-13500H.

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 E5-2697A v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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