Intel Core i3-9100 vs Intel Xeon E5-1620

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i3 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 72.99
$ 80.09 significantly less expensive
$ 153.08

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2845 points
4% slightly better overall score
2735 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5304 points
24% slightly better gaming score
4274 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2160 points
2280 points
5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2073 points
2192 points
5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

54.00 points
32% slightly higher Blender score
40.70 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3579 points
56% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2284 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1335 points
125% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
592 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3650 points
62% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
2244 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1394 points
128% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
611 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
Identical
3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
10% slightly higher turbo speed
3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
100% significantly lower TDP
130 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
40
150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
4
100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB
375 GiB
485% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

561st of 1,089
582nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i3
Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 May
2012 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400
DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
Yes

Core i3-9100 vs Xeon E5-1620 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-9100 is faster than the Xeon E5-1620. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1620 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Xeon E5-1620 has more threads. Both the Core i3-9100 and Xeon E5-1620 have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i3-9100 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i3-9100 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1620 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 Core i3-9100 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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