Intel Core i5-3550S vs Intel Xeon E5-1603 v3

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1279 points
1839 points
43% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2353 points
3374 points
43% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

976 points
1406 points
44% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

937 points
1350 points
44% significantly better heavy workload score

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Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
115% significantly lower TDP
140 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

876th of 1,089
753rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-3550S vs Xeon E5-1603 v3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-3550S beats the Xeon E5-1603 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1603 v3 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. A Core i5-3550S CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1603 v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Core i5-3550S has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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