Intel Core i5-4590 vs Intel Xeon X5670

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Price

The average price from our partner retailers

$ 100.73
$ 88.88
$ 11.85 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2239 points
3118 points
39% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4061 points
4250 points
4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1723 points
2751 points
59% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1654 points
2664 points
61% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

44.58 points
51.81 points
16% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3116 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2417 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1106 points
135% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
470 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3165 points
37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
2310 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1144 points
132% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
491 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

3.3 GHz
12% slightly higher clock speed
2.93 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
11% slightly higher turbo speed
3.33 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

84 W
13% slightly lower TDP
95 W

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
288 GiB
800% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

697th of 1,127
546th of 1,127

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i5
Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May
2010 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

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