Intel Core i5-3550 vs Intel Xeon E3-1230

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 E3-1230

Price

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$ 298.95

$ 265.87

$ 33.08 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2119 points

2180 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3894 points

14% slightly better gaming score

3414 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1620 points

1814 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1555 points

1741 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

27.36 points

29.69 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1939 points

2572 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

644 points

671 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1924 points

1979 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

645 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

585 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

3.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

77 W

3% 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

702nd of 1,089

686th 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 i5-3550 vs Xeon E3-1230 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-3550 is faster than the Xeon E3-1230. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1230 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Xeon E3-1230 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-3550 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E3-1230. Also, the Core i5-3550 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-3550 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1230 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 i5-3550 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.