Intel Core i5-3550S vs Intel Xeon E5-430

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 E5-430

Price

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$ 149.95

$ 129.95

$ 20.00 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1279 points

2250 points

75% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2353 points

3133 points

33% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

976 points

1956 points

100% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

937 points

1887 points

101% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2383 points

102% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1179 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

708 points

88% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

376 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1747 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1041 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

619 points

73% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

356 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz

12% slightly higher clock speed

2.66 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

23% slightly lower TDP

80 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

876th of 1,089

673rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

2007 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-3550S vs Xeon E5-430 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-430 is faster than the Core i5-3550S. Despite this, the Core i5-3550S has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-3550S has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-430. A Core i5-3550S CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-430 CPU because of its slightly 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 i5-3550S has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.