Intel Core i5-8250U vs Intel Xeon E5-1603

Compare Intel 8th 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 E5-1603

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$ 1527.00

$ 752.00

$ 775.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1907 points

21% slightly better overall score

1564 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3207 points

11% slightly better gaming score

2883 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1532 points

28% slightly better multitasking score

1194 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1465 points

27% slightly better heavy workload score

1145 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

38.03 points

70% significantly higher Blender score

22.30 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1971 points

1999 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

771 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

567 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

766% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

738th of 1,089

793rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-8250U vs Xeon E5-1603 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-8250U is faster than the Xeon E5-1603. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1603 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i5-8250U has more threads. A Core i5-8250U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1603 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-8250U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.