Intel Core i5-7300HQ vs Intel Xeon E5-520

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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Intel Xeon E5-520

Price

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$ 1738.00

$ 24.60

$ 1713.40 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2070 points

23% slightly better overall score

1676 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3797 points

52% significantly better gaming score

2485 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1588 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

1418 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1528 points

12% slightly better heavy workload score

1363 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

39.14 points

82% significantly higher Blender score

21.48 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2896 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1691 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1058 points

174% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

385 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3044 points

112% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1430 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1119 points

209% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

362 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz

10% slightly higher clock speed

2.26 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

38% slightly higher turbo speed

2.53 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

77% significantly lower TDP

80 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

144 GiB

125% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

Identical

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB

8 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

708th of 1,089

780th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i5

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

2009 February

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 E5-520 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-7300HQ performs better than the Xeon E5-520. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-520 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-7300HQ has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-520. Also, the Core i5-7300HQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-7300HQ CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-520 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Xeon E5-520 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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.