Intel Core i5-7600 vs Intel Xeon E3-1225

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Price

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$ 435.00
$ 349.95
$ 85.05 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2712 points
41% slightly better overall score
1912 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5048 points
45% significantly better gaming score
3480 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2059 points
40% slightly better multitasking score
1470 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1975 points
39% slightly better heavy workload score
1411 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

51.82 points
105% significantly higher Blender score
25.19 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3774 points
76% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2142 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1343 points
107% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
647 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3832 points
133% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1641 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1390 points
147% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
561 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

3.5 GHz
12% slightly higher clock speed
3.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz
20% slightly higher turbo speed
3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
46% significantly lower TDP
95 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
20
25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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

592nd of 1,099
743rd of 1,099

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

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

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