Intel Core i5-3470 vs Intel Xeon E5-649

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

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Intel Xeon E5-649

Price

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$ 217.39

$ 129.95

$ 87.44 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2020 points

4% slightly better overall score

1937 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3714 points

18% slightly better gaming score

3123 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1543 points

1567 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1482 points

1504 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

30.09 points

55.00 points

82% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1843 points

2109 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

622 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

415 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

26% slightly higher clock speed

2.53 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

22% slightly higher turbo speed

2.93 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

49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

288 GiB

800% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

712th of 1,089

730th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

2011 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

Yes

Core i5-3470 vs Xeon E5-649 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-3470 beats the Xeon E5-649 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-649 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-649 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-3470 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-3470. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-3470 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-649. Also, the Core i5-3470 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-3470 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-649 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.