Intel Core i5-3570 vs Intel Xeon E5-2620

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 190.22
$ 16.93 slightly less expensive
$ 207.15

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2165 points
2694 points
24% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3984 points
24% slightly better gaming score
3212 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1654 points
2534 points
53% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1587 points
2503 points
57% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

31.99 points
38.93 points
21% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1923 points
2793 points
45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

657 points
43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
459 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1926 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1902 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

656 points
68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
390 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
12
200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz
69% significantly higher clock speed
2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz
52% significantly higher turbo speed
2.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

77 W
23% slightly lower TDP
95 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
4
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

690th of 1,089
591st 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

No
Yes

Core i5-3570 vs Xeon E5-2620 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2620 beats the Core i5-3570 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-3570 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2620 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-3570. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2620 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-3570. It also has more threads than the Core i5-3570. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-3570 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2620. Also, the Core i5-3570 has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-3570 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2620 CPU because of its slightly 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 i5-3570 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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