Intel Core i5-3330 vs Intel Xeon X3450

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 X3450

Price

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$ 199.00

$ 48.66

$ 150.34 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1786 points

3% slightly better overall score

1719 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3295 points

19% slightly better gaming score

2768 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1364 points

1407 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1310 points

1350 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

24.32 points

39.82 points

63% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1647 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1454 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

558 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

432 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 GHz

12% slightly higher clock speed

2.66 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.2 GHz

Identical

3.2 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

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

Identical

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

759th of 1,089

770th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 August

2009 August

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 X3450 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-3330 is faster than the Xeon X3450. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X3450 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Xeon X3450 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-3330 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon X3450. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. A Core i5-3330 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X3450 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.