Intel Core i5-2400 vs Intel Xeon E5-649

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-649

Price

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$ 60.50

$ 69.45 significantly less expensive

$ 129.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1911 points

1937 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3500 points

12% slightly better gaming score

3123 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1462 points

1567 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1403 points

1504 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

26.55 points

55.00 points

107% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1606 points

2109 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

551 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

415 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

22% slightly higher clock speed

2.53 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

16% slightly higher turbo speed

2.93 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

288 GiB

800% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

737th of 1,089

730th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 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 i5-2400 vs Xeon E5-649 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-649 is faster than the Core i5-2400. Despite this, the Core i5-2400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-649 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i5-2400 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-2400. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-2400 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-649. Also, the Core i5-2400 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-649 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.

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 i5-2400 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.