Intel Core i5-3470S vs Intel Xeon E5-620

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1864 points
1884 points
1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3436 points
30% slightly better gaming score
2639 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1423 points
1648 points
15% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1365 points
1596 points
16% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.42 points
10% slightly higher Blender score
25.76 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1722 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1482 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

598 points
63% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
366 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz
14% slightly higher clock speed
2.53 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz
35% slightly higher turbo speed
2.66 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

2
3
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

757th of 1,102
754th of 1,102

Family

The product line

Core
Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May
2010 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

No
Yes

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