Intel Core i5-2500 vs Intel Xeon E3-1225

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 E3-1225

Price

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$ 135.87

$ 214.08 significantly less expensive

$ 349.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1975 points

3% slightly better overall score

1912 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3663 points

5% slightly better gaming score

3480 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1502 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

1470 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1441 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

1411 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

26.26 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

25.19 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1687 points

2142 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

571 points

647 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1692 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1641 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

592 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

561 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

3.3 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

3.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

Identical

95 W

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

725th of 1,089

735th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon E3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

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 i5-2500 vs Xeon E3-1225 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1225 beats the Core i5-2500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2500 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-2500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1225. Also, the Core i5-2500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i5-2500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.