Intel Core i5-3570K vs Intel Xeon E5-2650

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2650

Price

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$ 139.00

$ 103.11

$ 35.89 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2217 points

2944 points

32% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4077 points

16% slightly better gaming score

3493 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1694 points

2761 points

62% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1627 points

2710 points

66% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.69 points

58.36 points

63% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2162 points

4002 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

704 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

515 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2062 points

2564 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

688 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

403 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

300% 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

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

547th 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 E5-2650 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2650 is faster than the Core i5-3570K. 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 E5-2650 has significantly more cores with 8 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 E5-2650. Also, the Core i5-3570K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-3570K CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2650 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 i5-3570K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.