Intel Core i5-3340 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 278.02
$ 229.95
$ 48.07 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1890 points
43% significantly better overall score
1318 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3455 points
43% significantly better gaming score
2412 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1447 points
43% significantly better multitasking score
1009 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1389 points
43% significantly better heavy workload score
969 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

36.51 points
66% significantly higher Blender score
21.91 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1643 points
1924 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

568 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
482 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1687 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1438 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

564 points
35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
416 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz
16% slightly higher clock speed
2.66 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz
12% slightly higher turbo speed
2.93 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

77 W
68% significantly lower TDP
130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
3
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

741st of 1,089
865th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August
2009 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i5-3340 vs Xeon W3520 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-3340 beats the Xeon W3520 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon W3520 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-3340 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon W3520. Also, the Core i5-3340 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-3340 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon W3520 CPU because of its significantly 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 i5-3340 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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