Intel Core i5-7500T vs Intel Xeon E3-1225

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E3-1225

Price

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$ 130.43

$ 219.52 significantly less expensive

$ 349.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1862 points

1912 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3552 points

2% slightly better gaming score

3480 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1406 points

1470 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1350 points

1411 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.76 points

49% significantly higher Blender score

25.19 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3023 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2142 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1087 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

647 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3062 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1641 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1107 points

97% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

561 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

2.7 GHz

3.1 GHz

14% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz

3.4 GHz

3% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

171% significantly lower TDP

95 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

749th of 1,089

735th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i5

Xeon E3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

2011 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-7500T vs Xeon E3-1225 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1225 beats the Core i5-7500T in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-7500T 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. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1225 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-7500T. Also, the Xeon E3-1225 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-7500T CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1225 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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