Intel Xeon E5-2670 vs Intel Core i7-5820K

Intel Xeon E5-2670
Intel Socket 2011SERVER
2600 MHz / Cores: 8 / Mar 2012
Intel Xeon E5-2670
Intel Core i7-5820K
Intel Socket 2011-3DESKTOP
3300 MHz / Cores: 6 / Sep 2014
Intel Core i7-5820K

Summary

Reasons to consider Intel Xeon E5-2670

None

Reasons to consider Intel Core i7-5820K

This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on raw specifications plus core architecture.
Higher theoretical multi-threaded performance, based on raw specifications plus core architecture.
Higher overall performance, based on specifications plus core architecture.

Intel Core i7-5820K

Gaming

HWBench recommends Intel Core i7-5820K

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

No winner

Productivity

No clear winner declared



Specifications

Features

Intel Xeon E5-2670Intel Core i7-5820K
MMX
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
SSE4.2
AVX
EIST
Intel 64
XD bit
TXT
Intel VT-x
Intel VT-d
Hyper-Threading
AES-NI
8.0GT/s QPI
AVX2
VT-x
VT-d
HTT
TSX
CLMUL
FMA3
F16C
BMI1
BMI2
Boost 2.0

Architecture

Intel Xeon E5-2670Intel Core i7-5820K
ArchitectureIntel_SandyBridgevsIntel_Haswell
MarketServervsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR3vsDDR4
CodenameSandy Bridge-EPvsHaswell-E
Release DateMar 2012vsSep 2014

Cores

Intel Xeon E5-2670Intel Core i7-5820K
Cores8vs6
Threads16vs12
SMPs2vs1
Integrated GraphicsNovsNo

Cache

Intel Xeon E5-2670Intel Core i7-5820K
L1 Cache64 KB (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache256 KB (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache20480 KB (shared)vs15360 KB (shared)

Physical

Intel Xeon E5-2670Intel Core i7-5820K
SocketIntel Socket 2011vsIntel Socket 2011-3
Max Case Tempunknownvsunknown
PackageFC-LGA10vs
Die Size435mm²vs356mm²
Process32 nmvs22 nm

Performance

Intel Xeon E5-2670Intel Core i7-5820K
Cpu Frequency2600 MHzvs3300 MHz
Turbo Clock3300 MHzvs3600 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltage1.35 Vvsunknown
TDP115 Wvs140 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • Intel Xeon E5-2670
    3300 points
  • Intel Core i7-5820K
    4032 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • Intel Xeon E5-2670
    24960 points
  • Intel Core i7-5820K
    26611 points

Points - higher is better