Intel Core i5-3450 vs Intel Xeon E3-1220

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E3-1220

Price

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$ 95.00

$ 20.00 slightly less expensive

$ 115.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1948 points

3% slightly better overall score

1881 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3568 points

3% slightly better gaming score

3441 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1491 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

1439 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1432 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

1379 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

30.26 points

9% slightly higher Blender score

27.68 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1809 points

2143 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

611 points

649 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1776 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1577 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

606 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

532 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

3.1 GHz

Identical

3.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

77 W

3% slightly lower TDP

80 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

727th of 1,089

746th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon E3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

2011 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 i5-3450 vs Xeon E3-1220 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-3450 performs better than the Xeon E3-1220. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1220 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. According to our data, the Core i5-3450 and Xeon E3-1220 have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i5-3450 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-3450 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1220 CPU because of its slightly 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 i5-3450 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.