Intel Core i5-2400S vs Intel Xeon E5-1603

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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Intel Xeon E5-1603

Price

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$ 70.00

$ 682.00 significantly less expensive

$ 752.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1557 points

1564 points

0.45% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2888 points

0.17% slightly better gaming score

2883 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1185 points

1194 points

0.76% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1138 points

1145 points

0.62% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

25.19 points

12% slightly higher Blender score

22.30 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1415 points

1999 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

515 points

567 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1360 points

1475 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

504 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

468 points

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

65 W

100% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

799th of 1,089

793rd of 1,089

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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

Core i5-2400S vs Xeon E5-1603 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1603 beats the Core i5-2400S in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-2400S 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 i5-2400S CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1603 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 i5-2400S has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.