Intel Core i5-2500K vs Intel Xeon E3-1226 v3

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E3-1226 v3

Price

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$ 133.55

$ 99.00

$ 34.55 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2325 points

0.78% slightly better overall score

2307 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4281 points

0.75% slightly better gaming score

4249 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1776 points

0.79% slightly better multitasking score

1762 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1704 points

0.77% slightly better heavy workload score

1691 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

34.51 points

45.99 points

33% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1893 points

2832 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

629 points

871 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1910 points

3291 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

650 points

1157 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

Identical

3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

Identical

3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

84 W

13% slightly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

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

654th of 1,089

658th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-2500K vs Xeon E3-1226 v3 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1226 v3 is faster than the Core i5-2500K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2500K in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. In terms of clock speed, the Core i5-2500K and Xeon E3-1226 v3 are identical in this regard. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Xeon E3-1226 v3 outputs less heat than Core i5-2500K thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the Core i5-2500K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.