Intel Core i5-7500 vs Intel Xeon E3-1240 V2

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

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Intel Xeon E3-1240 V2

Price

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$ 73.80

$ 76.20 significantly less expensive

$ 150.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2458 points

2562 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4565 points

12% slightly better gaming score

4064 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1872 points

2114 points

12% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1797 points

2029 points

12% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

47.70 points

20% slightly higher Blender score

39.73 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

3.4 GHz

3.40 GHz

0.03% slightly higher clock speed

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

637th of 1,089

613th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-7500 vs Xeon E3-1240 V2 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E3-1240 V2 performs better than the Core i5-7500. Despite this, the Core i5-7500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Xeon E3-1240 V2 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1240 V2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-7500. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Xeon E3-1240 V2 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 i5-7500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.