Intel Core i5-7300HQ vs Intel Xeon E5-2670

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i5 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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Price

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$ 1738.00
$ 491.40
$ 1246.60 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2070 points
2679 points
29% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3797 points
0.90% slightly better gaming score
3763 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1588 points
2311 points
45% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1528 points
2218 points
45% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

39.14 points
69.61 points
77% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2896 points
3089 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1058 points
115% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
491 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3044 points
3052 points
0.26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1119 points
121% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
505 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
16
300% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz
2.6 GHz
4% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz
6% slightly higher turbo speed
3.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
155% significantly lower TDP
115 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
40
150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
4
100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB
384 GiB
499% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

708th of 1,089
596th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i5
Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February
2012 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400
DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i5-7300HQ vs Xeon E5-2670 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2670 is faster than the Core i5-7300HQ. Despite this, the Core i5-7300HQ has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2670 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-7300HQ. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2670 has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-7300HQ. It also has more threads than the Core i5-7300HQ. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2670 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-7300HQ. Despite this, the Core i5-7300HQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-7300HQ CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2670 CPU because of its significantly 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 i5-7300HQ has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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