Intel Core i5-3470S vs Intel Xeon X5687

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

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Intel Xeon X5687

Price

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$ 621.00

$ 189.95

$ 431.05 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1864 points

1892 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3436 points

3477 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1423 points

1446 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1365 points

1388 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.42 points

42.49 points

49% significantly higher Blender 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

3.59 GHz

23% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

3.86 GHz

7% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

100% significantly lower TDP

130 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

748th of 1,089

740th 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 i5-3470S vs Xeon X5687 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon X5687 beats the Core i5-3470S in overall performance. 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. Our comparison shows that the Xeon X5687 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3470S. Also, the Xeon X5687 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-3470S CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5687 CPU because of its significantly 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.