Intel Core i5-2400 vs Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3

Price

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$ 60.50

$ 162.61 significantly less expensive

$ 223.11

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1911 points

2007 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3500 points

3728 points

6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1462 points

1528 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1403 points

1468 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

26.55 points

50.68 points

90% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1612 points

2942 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

550 points

1026 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1606 points

3227 points

100% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

551 points

1124 points

103% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

Identical

3.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

3.5 GHz

2% 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

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

737th of 1,089

713th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-2400 vs Xeon E3-1220 v3 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-2400 is faster than the Xeon E3-1220 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1220 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. In terms of clock speed, the Core i5-2400 and Xeon E3-1220 v3 are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1220 v3 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1220 v3 outputs less heat than Core i5-2400 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 i5-2400 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.