Intel Core i5-3570K vs Intel Xeon E5-2630

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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Intel Xeon E5-2630

Price

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$ 139.00

$ 717.38 significantly less expensive

$ 856.38

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2217 points

2586 points

16% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4077 points

13% slightly better gaming score

3592 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1694 points

2259 points

33% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1627 points

2183 points

34% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.69 points

38.04 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2162 points

3117 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

704 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

510 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2062 points

2380 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

688 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

448 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

47% significantly higher clock speed

2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

35% slightly higher turbo speed

2.8 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

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

679th of 1,089

610th 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 i5-3570K vs Xeon E5-2630 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2630 beats the Core i5-3570K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-3570K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2630 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i5-3570K that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-3570K. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-3570K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2630. Also, the Core i5-3570K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-3570K CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2630 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 i5-3570K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.