Intel Core i5-2500K vs Intel Xeon W3520

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 W3520

Price

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$ 133.55

$ 96.40 significantly less expensive

$ 229.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2325 points

76% significantly better overall score

1318 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4281 points

77% significantly better gaming score

2412 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1776 points

76% significantly better multitasking score

1009 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1704 points

75% significantly better heavy workload score

969 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

34.51 points

57% significantly higher Blender score

21.91 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1893 points

1924 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

629 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

482 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1910 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1438 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

650 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

416 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

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

26% slightly higher turbo speed

2.93 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

654th of 1,089

865th 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 i5-2500K vs Xeon W3520 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-2500K is faster than the Xeon W3520. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon W3520 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-2500K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon W3520. Also, the Core i5-2500K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-2500K CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon W3520 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 i5-2500K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.