Intel Core i5-8250U vs Intel Xeon E3-1230

Compare Intel 8th 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 E3-1230

Price

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$ 1527.00

$ 265.87

$ 1261.13 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1907 points

2180 points

14% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3207 points

3414 points

6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1532 points

1814 points

18% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1465 points

1741 points

18% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

38.03 points

28% slightly higher Blender score

29.69 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1971 points

2572 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

771 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

671 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

1.6 GHz

3.2 GHz

100% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

3.6 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

433% significantly lower TDP

80 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

66% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

Identical

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

738th of 1,089

686th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5

Xeon E3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August

2011 May

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 i5-8250U vs Xeon E3-1230 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1230 is faster than the Core i5-8250U. Despite this, the Core i5-8250U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1230 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8250U. Also, the Xeon E3-1230 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-8250U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1230 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. Indeed, the Core i5-8250U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.