Intel Core i5-4590 vs Intel Xeon E5-430

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

$ 100.73
$ 29.22 slightly less expensive
$ 129.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2241 points
2250 points
0.40% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4060 points
29% slightly better gaming score
3133 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1725 points
1956 points
13% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1656 points
1887 points
13% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

44.58 points
381% significantly higher Blender score
9.25 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3116 points
164% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1179 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1106 points
194% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
376 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3165 points
204% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1041 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1144 points
221% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
356 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

3.3 GHz
24% slightly higher clock speed
2.66 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

84 W
80 W
5% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

674th of 1,089
673rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i5
Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 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

No
-

Core i5-4590 vs Xeon E5-430 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-430 beats the Core i5-4590 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-4590 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-4590 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-430. The Xeon E5-430 outputs less heat than Core i5-4590 thanks to a 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 i5-4590 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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