Comparison between the xeon e5 2670 vs core i9 9900k in games

This is a very interesting comparison between both Intel processors, which have the same number of cores, but which belong to different generations. We are talking about the Xeon E5 2670 'Sandy Bridge' and the Core i9 9900K 'Coffee Lake' from Intel, which have been tested in several current video games.

Xeon E5 2670 vs Core i9 9900K in current games

First of all, this comparison is interesting, not only because of the generational difference between them, but also because of their price. We can get an i9 9900K for about 650 euros, while the 'old' E5 2670 can be obtained for between 150-180 euros (Prices from Amazon.es). Both chips have 8 cores and 16 threads.

The Intel Xeon E5-2670 was born in 2012 and is manufactured under a 32nm node. It has 8 cores and 16 threads of execution with a maximum speed of 3.30 GHz in Turbo. (In the comparison it is running at 3.5 GHz).

The Intel Core i9 9900K was born just a few months ago and is manufactured with a 14nm node with the same number of cores and threads. The maximum speed in Turbo is 5 GHz.

The results:

Benchmark folks tested both processors on Assassins Creed Odyssey, Battlefield V, and GTA V using an RTX 2080 graphics card. The performance difference in favor of the i9 9900K is clear, thanks to the fact that it works at a much higher frequency and to the improvements in the IPC that Intel has been implementing during these years, but the price difference is so great that we could forgive those 20 fps difference that we see in Assassins Creed, for example.

Could we say that the E5 2670 wins in terms of price-performance? Perhaps a Xeon chip from a few years ago can be an 'economic' platform for today's games without dispensing with the number of cores. It would have been interesting to see some Ryzen chip in this comparison too, don't you think?

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