Intel Core i5-3470S 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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$ 621.00

$ 115.00

$ 506.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1864 points

1881 points

0.91% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3436 points

3441 points

0.15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1423 points

1439 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1365 points

1379 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.42 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

27.68 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1747 points

2143 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

606 points

649 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1722 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1577 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

598 points

12% 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

2.9 GHz

3.1 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

23% 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

748th 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 i5-3470S vs Xeon E3-1220 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-3470S is faster than the Xeon E3-1220. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1220 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 Xeon E3-1220 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3470S. Despite this, the Core i5-3470S has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-3470S 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.

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 i5-3470S has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.