Intel Core i5-2320 vs Intel Xeon E5-1603 v3

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1844 points

0.27% slightly better overall score

1839 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3371 points

3374 points

0.09% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1414 points

0.57% slightly better multitasking score

1406 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1357 points

0.52% slightly better heavy workload score

1350 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

25.19 points

29.86 points

18% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

47% significantly lower TDP

140 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

751st of 1,089

753rd of 1,089

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-2320 vs Xeon E5-1603 v3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-2320 beats the Xeon E5-1603 v3 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1603 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. A Core i5-2320 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1603 v3 CPU because of its significantly 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 i5-2320 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.