Intel Core i5-2300 vs Intel Xeon E5-520

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-520

Price

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$ 35.00

$ 24.60

$ 10.40 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1738 points

3% slightly better overall score

1676 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3210 points

29% slightly better gaming score

2485 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1327 points

1418 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1273 points

1363 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

25.92 points

20% slightly higher Blender score

21.48 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1515 points

1691 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

516 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

385 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1499 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1430 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

510 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

362 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz

23% slightly higher clock speed

2.26 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.1 GHz

22% slightly higher turbo speed

2.53 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

80 W

18% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

144 GiB

350% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

769th of 1,089

780th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2009 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-2300 vs Xeon E5-520 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-2300 performs better than the Xeon E5-520. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-520 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-2300 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-520. Also, the Core i5-2300 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-520 outputs less heat than Core i5-2300 thanks to a slightly 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. For instance, the Core i5-2300 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.