Intel Core i5-3470S vs Intel Xeon E3-1225

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 E3-1225

Price

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$ 621.00

$ 349.95

$ 271.05 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1864 points

1912 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3436 points

3480 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1423 points

1470 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1365 points

1411 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.42 points

12% slightly higher Blender score

25.19 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1747 points

2142 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

606 points

647 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1722 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1641 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

598 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

561 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

46% significantly lower TDP

95 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

735th 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 E3-1225 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E3-1225 performs better than the Core i5-3470S. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3470S in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1225 has a slightly higher clock speed than 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 E3-1225 CPU because of its significantly 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.