Intel Xeon Gold 6230 vs Intel Core i5-13500T

Compare Intel 2nd Generation Xeon Scalable 20 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i5 14 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

9125 points

2% slightly better overall score

8912 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5766 points

10575 points

83% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10388 points

23% slightly better multitasking score

8418 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11200 points

34% slightly better heavy workload score

8343 points

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Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7673 points

8930 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1140 points

2280 points

100% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

42% many more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.10 GHz

30% slightly higher clock speed

1.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

4.6 GHz

17% slightly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

139% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

200% significantly more memory channels

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

20 MiB

73% significantly more L2 cache

11.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

27.5 MiB

14% slightly more L3 cache

24 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

115th of 1,118

119th of 1,118

Family

The product line

2nd Generation Xeon Scalable

13th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 May

2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933

DDR5-4800

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon Gold 6230 vs Core i5-13500T specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon Gold 6230 performs better than the Core i5-13500T. Despite this, the Core i5-13500T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon Gold 6230 has many more cores with 20 cores whereas the Core i5-13500T has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13500T. Our comparison shows that the Xeon Gold 6230 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13500T. Despite this, the Core i5-13500T has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Xeon Gold 6230 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-13500T. The Xeon Gold 6230 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 Gold 6230 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.