Intel Core i5-2500 vs Intel Xeon E3-1230

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 E3-1230

Price

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$ 135.87

$ 130.00 significantly less expensive

$ 265.87

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1975 points

2180 points

10% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3663 points

7% slightly better gaming score

3414 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1502 points

1814 points

20% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1441 points

1741 points

20% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

26.26 points

29.69 points

13% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1687 points

2572 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

571 points

671 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1692 points

1979 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

592 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

585 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

3.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

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

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

686th 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 E3-1230 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E3-1230 performs better than the Core i5-2500. Despite this, the Core i5-2500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Xeon E3-1230 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-2500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1230. Also, the Core i5-2500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1230 outputs less heat than Core i5-2500 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 i5-2500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.