Intel Core i5-7300HQ vs Intel Xeon E3-1230

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E3-1230

Price

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$ 1738.00

$ 265.87

$ 1472.13 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2070 points

2180 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3797 points

11% slightly better gaming score

3414 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1588 points

1814 points

14% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1528 points

1741 points

13% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

39.14 points

31% slightly higher Blender score

29.69 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2896 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2572 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1058 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

671 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3044 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1979 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1119 points

91% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

585 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz

3.2 GHz

28% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

3.6 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

77% significantly lower TDP

80 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

708th of 1,089

686th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i5

Xeon E3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

2011 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-7300HQ vs Xeon E3-1230 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E3-1230 performs better than the Core i5-7300HQ. Despite this, the Core i5-7300HQ has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Xeon E3-1230 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1230 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-7300HQ. Also, the Xeon E3-1230 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-7300HQ CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1230 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the Core i5-7300HQ has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.