Intel Core i5-7400 vs Intel Xeon E5-520

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Price

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$ 59.00
$ 24.60
$ 34.40 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2237 points
33% slightly better overall score
1676 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4165 points
67% significantly better gaming score
2485 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1701 points
19% slightly better multitasking score
1418 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1632 points
19% slightly better heavy workload score
1363 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

43.28 points
101% significantly higher Blender score
21.48 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3137 points
85% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1691 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1144 points
197% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
385 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3282 points
129% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1430 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1193 points
229% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
362 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

3 GHz
32% 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

65 W
23% slightly lower TDP
80 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

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

687th of 1,111
795th of 1,111

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

DDR4-2133
DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

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