Intel Core i5-10310U vs Intel Xeon E3-1225

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 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

$ 1460.00
$ 349.95
$ 1110.05 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2131 points
11% slightly better overall score
1912 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3649 points
4% slightly better gaming score
3480 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1700 points
15% slightly better multitasking score
1470 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1625 points
15% slightly better heavy workload score
1411 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

44.38 points
76% significantly higher Blender score
25.19 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.7 GHz
3.1 GHz
82% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
29% slightly higher turbo speed
3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
533% significantly lower TDP
95 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
20
25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory
32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

698th of 1,089
735th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i5
Xeon E3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2011 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i5-10310U vs Xeon E3-1225 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E3-1225 performs better than the Core i5-10310U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10310U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i5-10310U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1225 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-10310U. Despite this, the Core i5-10310U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-10310U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1225 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. Indeed, the Core i5-10310U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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