Intel Core i5-2500 vs Intel Xeon E5-520

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

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Intel Xeon E5-520

Price

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$ 135.87

$ 24.60

$ 111.27 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1975 points

17% slightly better overall score

1676 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3663 points

47% significantly better gaming score

2485 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1502 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

1418 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1441 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

1363 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

26.26 points

22% slightly higher Blender score

21.48 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1687 points

1691 points

0.24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

571 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

385 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1692 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1430 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

592 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

362 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

45% significantly higher clock speed

2.26 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

46% significantly higher turbo speed

2.53 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

144 GiB

350% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

725th of 1,089

780th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2009 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 i5-2500 vs Xeon E5-520 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-2500 is faster than the Xeon E5-520. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-520 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-2500 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-520. Also, the Core i5-2500 has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-520 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.

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.