Intel Core i3-4170 vs Intel Xeon X5450

Core i3-4170 vs Xeon X5450 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-4170 beats the Xeon X5450 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X5450 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon X5450 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-4170 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-4170 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon X5450. A Core i3-4170 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5450 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i3-4170 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.