Intel Core i5-3550 vs Intel Xeon E5-2643

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2643

Price

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$ 298.95

$ 1858.05 significantly less expensive

$ 2157.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2119 points

2971 points

40% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3894 points

4108 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1620 points

2620 points

61% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1555 points

2542 points

63% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

27.36 points

40.83 points

49% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1939 points

2888 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

644 points

646 points

0.31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1924 points

2094 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

645 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

566 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

Identical

3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

77 W

68% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

384 GiB

1100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

702nd of 1,089

542nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

2012 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 i5-3550 vs Xeon E5-2643 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2643 performs better than the Core i5-3550. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3550 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Xeon E5-2643 has more threads. Both the Core i5-3550 and Xeon E5-2643 have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i5-3550 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-3550 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2643 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 i5-3550 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.