Intel Core i5-8279U vs Intel Xeon E3-1220 v5

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v5 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2436 points

1% slightly better overall score

2407 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3645 points

4431 points

21% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2073 points

12% slightly better multitasking score

1840 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2006 points

13% slightly better heavy workload score

1766 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

58.56 points

22% slightly higher Blender score

47.62 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3618 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

3379 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1163 points

1204 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3733 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

3325 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1205 points

0.58% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1198 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

2.4 GHz

3.00 GHz

25% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

17% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

28 W

185% significantly lower TDP

80 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

64 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

640th of 1,089

642nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5

Xeon E3 v5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 May

2015 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR4-1866

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-8279U vs Xeon E3-1220 v5 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-8279U is faster than the Xeon E3-1220 v5. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1220 v5 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i5-8279U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1220 v5 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8279U. Despite this, the Core i5-8279U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-8279U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1220 v5 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 i5-8279U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.