Intel Core i5-7300HQ vs Intel Xeon E5-430

Compare Intel 7th 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

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$ 1738.00
$ 129.95
$ 1608.05 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2070 points
2250 points
8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3797 points
21% slightly better gaming score
3133 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1588 points
1956 points
23% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1528 points
1887 points
23% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

39.14 points
322% significantly higher Blender score
9.25 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2896 points
145% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1179 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1058 points
181% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
376 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3044 points
192% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1041 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1119 points
214% 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

2.5 GHz
2.66 GHz
6% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
77% significantly lower TDP
80 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
12 MiB
1100% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

708th of 1,089
673rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i5
Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February
2007 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400
-

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core i5-7300HQ vs Xeon E5-430 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-430 is faster than the Core i5-7300HQ. Despite this, the Core i5-7300HQ 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 Xeon E5-430 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-7300HQ. A Core i5-7300HQ CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-430 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Xeon E5-430 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-7300HQ

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 i5-7300HQ has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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