Intel Core i5-3470 vs Intel Xeon E3-1230

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 E3-1230

Price

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$ 217.39

$ 48.48 slightly less expensive

$ 265.87

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2020 points

2180 points

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3714 points

8% slightly better gaming score

3414 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1543 points

1814 points

17% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1482 points

1741 points

17% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

30.09 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

29.69 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1862 points

2572 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

620 points

671 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1843 points

1979 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

622 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

585 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

3.2 GHz

Identical

3.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

Identical

3.6 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

712th of 1,089

686th 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 i5-3470 vs Xeon E3-1230 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1230 beats the Core i5-3470 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-3470 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Xeon E3-1230 has more threads. Both the Core i5-3470 and Xeon E3-1230 have the same clock speed. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. A Core i5-3470 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1230 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 i5-3470 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.