Intel Core i5-4570 vs Intel Xeon E5-520

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 4 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

$ 82.01
$ 24.60
$ 57.41 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2177 points
29% slightly better overall score
1676 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4010 points
61% significantly better gaming score
2485 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1662 points
17% slightly better multitasking score
1418 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1595 points
17% slightly better heavy workload score
1363 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

42.40 points
97% significantly higher Blender score
21.48 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2948 points
74% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1691 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1033 points
168% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
385 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3094 points
116% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1430 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1112 points
207% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
362 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz
41% slightly higher clock speed
2.26 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz
42% slightly higher turbo speed
2.53 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

84 W
80 W
5% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
3
49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
144 GiB
350% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

687th of 1,089
780th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i5
Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May
2009 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 i5-4570 vs Xeon E5-520 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-4570 beats the Xeon E5-520 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-520 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-4570 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-520. Also, the Core i5-4570 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-520 outputs less heat than Core i5-4570 thanks to a 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 i5-4570 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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