Intel Core i5-2500 vs Intel Xeon W3550

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 W3550

Price

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$ 135.87

$ 49.95

$ 85.92 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1975 points

0.25% slightly better overall score

1970 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3663 points

14% slightly better gaming score

3191 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1502 points

1606 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1441 points

1541 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

26.26 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

24.84 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1692 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1586 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

592 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

458 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

7% slightly higher clock speed

3.06 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

3.33 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

36% slightly lower TDP

130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

33% slightly more supported memory

24 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

725th of 1,089

726th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2009 August

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 W3550 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon W3550 beats the Core i5-2500 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-2500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Xeon W3550 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-2500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon W3550. Also, the Core i5-2500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-2500 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon W3550 CPU because of its 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.