Intel Core i5-3330 vs Intel Xeon E5-2420

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2420

Price

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$ 199.00

$ 156.55 significantly less expensive

$ 355.55

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1786 points

2140 points

19% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3295 points

10% slightly better gaming score

2978 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1364 points

1875 points

37% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1310 points

1814 points

38% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

24.32 points

36.28 points

49% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1533 points

2643 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

538 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

453 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1647 points

1814 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

558 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

378 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz

57% significantly higher clock speed

1.9 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.2 GHz

33% slightly higher turbo speed

2.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

77 W

23% slightly lower TDP

95 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

384 GiB

1100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

759th of 1,089

697th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 August

2012 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-3330 vs Xeon E5-2420 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2420 is faster than the Core i5-3330. Despite this, the Core i5-3330 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2420 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-3330 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-3330. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-3330 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2420. Also, the Core i5-3330 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-3330 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2420 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Core i5-3330 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.