Intel Core i5-3470S vs Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3

Price

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$ 621.00

$ 223.11

$ 397.89 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1864 points

2007 points

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3436 points

3728 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1423 points

1528 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1365 points

1468 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.42 points

50.68 points

78% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1747 points

2942 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

606 points

1026 points

69% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1722 points

3227 points

87% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

598 points

1124 points

87% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

2% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 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

713th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-3470S vs Xeon E3-1220 v3 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-3470S is faster than the Xeon E3-1220 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1220 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1220 v3 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 v3 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 i5-3470S has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.