Intel Core i7-10510U vs Intel Xeon E3-1230

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i7 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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Price

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$ 3495.00
$ 265.87
$ 3229.13 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2309 points
5% slightly better overall score
2180 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3832 points
12% slightly better gaming score
3414 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1870 points
3% slightly better multitasking score
1814 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1787 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score
1741 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

42.05 points
41% slightly higher Blender score
29.69 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2837 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2572 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1168 points
74% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
671 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2696 points
36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1979 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1079 points
84% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
585 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.8 GHz
3.2 GHz
77% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz
36% slightly higher turbo speed
3.6 GHz

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

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

657th of 1,089
686th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i7
Xeon E3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 August
2011 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i7-10510U vs Xeon E3-1230 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-10510U is faster than the Xeon E3-1230. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1230 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1230 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-10510U. Despite this, the Core i7-10510U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-10510U 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 i7-10510U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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