Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3 vs Intel Core i5-13600KF

Xeon E5-2699 v3 vs Core i5-13600KF benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13600KF beats the Xeon E5-2699 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2699 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has slightly more cores with 18 cores whereas the Core i5-13600KF has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13600KF. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-13600KF has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2699 v3. Also, the Core i5-13600KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-13600KF outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2699 v3 thanks to a 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 E5-2699 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.