Intel Core i5-3470 vs Intel Xeon E5-2609 v3

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2609 v3

Price

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$ 217.39

$ 198.95

$ 18.44 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2020 points

14% slightly better overall score

1767 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3714 points

33% slightly better gaming score

2784 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1543 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

1446 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1482 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

1388 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1862 points

2526 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

620 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

461 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1843 points

2743 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

622 points

0.81% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

617 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

68% significantly higher clock speed

1.9 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

100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

768 GiB

2299% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

712th of 1,089

763rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-3470 vs Xeon E5-2609 v3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-3470 is faster than the Xeon E5-2609 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2609 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2609 v3 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i5-3470 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-3470. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-3470 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2609 v3. A Core i5-3470 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2609 v3 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the Core i5-3470 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.