Intel Core i5-2300 vs Intel Xeon X3450

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 X3450

Price

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$ 35.00

$ 13.66 significantly less expensive

$ 48.66

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1738 points

1% slightly better overall score

1719 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3210 points

15% slightly better gaming score

2768 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1327 points

1407 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1273 points

1350 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

25.92 points

39.82 points

53% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1499 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1454 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

510 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

432 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

2.66 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.1 GHz

3.2 GHz

3% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

Identical

95 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

Identical

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

769th of 1,089

770th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2009 August

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 X3450 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-2300 performs better than the Xeon X3450. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X3450 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Xeon X3450 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-2300 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon X3450. Despite this, the Xeon X3450 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i5-2300 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.