Intel Core i5-2320 vs Intel Xeon E3-1220

Compare Intel Core 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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Intel Xeon E3-1220

Price

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$ 141.67

$ 115.00

$ 26.67 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1844 points

1881 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3371 points

3441 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1414 points

1439 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1357 points

1379 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

25.19 points

27.68 points

9% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1527 points

2143 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

530 points

649 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1550 points

1577 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

538 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

532 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

3 GHz

3.1 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz

3.4 GHz

3% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

80 W

18% slightly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

25% slightly more pcie lanes

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

751st of 1,089

746th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon E3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 August

2011 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-2320 vs Xeon E3-1220 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1220 beats the Core i5-2320 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2320 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1220 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-2320. Also, the Xeon E3-1220 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1220 outputs less heat than Core i5-2320 thanks to a slightly 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 i5-2320 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.