Intel Core i5-2500K vs Intel Xeon E5-430

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 E5-430

Price

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$ 133.55

$ 129.95

$ 3.60 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2325 points

3% slightly better overall score

2250 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4281 points

36% slightly better gaming score

3133 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1776 points

1956 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1704 points

1887 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

34.51 points

272% significantly higher Blender score

9.25 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1893 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1179 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

629 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

376 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1910 points

83% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1041 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

650 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

356 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

24% slightly higher clock speed

2.66 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

80 W

18% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

654th of 1,089

673rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2007 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-2500K vs Xeon E5-430 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-2500K performs better than the Xeon E5-430. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-430 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-2500K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-430. The Xeon E5-430 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.

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 i5-2500K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.