Intel Xeon Gold 6254 vs Intel Core i5-14600K

Compare Intel 2nd Generation Xeon Scalable 12 core CPU vs Intel Core i5 (14th gen) 14 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-14600K

Price

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$ 1568.00

$ 284.79

$ 1283.21 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10336 points

12025 points

16% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7901 points

14272 points

80% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

11185 points

11307 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11474 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

11156 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

312.88 points

3% slightly higher Blender score

303.53 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11007 points

16100 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1387 points

2838 points

104% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.09 GHz

3.5 GHz

13% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

5.3 GHz

32% 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

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

79th of 1,089

53rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

2nd Generation Xeon Scalable

Core i5 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 May

2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933

DDR5-5600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon Gold 6254 vs Core i5-14600K specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon Gold 6254 is faster than the Core i5-14600K. Despite this, the Core i5-14600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-14600K has slightly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Xeon Gold 6254 has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon Gold 6254. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-14600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon Gold 6254. Also, the Core i5-14600K has a slightly higher turbo speed.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the Xeon Gold 6254 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.