Intel Core i7-2600 vs Intel Xeon E5-2620

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Price

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$ 226.37
$ 207.15
$ 19.22 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2563 points
2694 points
5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4051 points
26% slightly better gaming score
3212 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2119 points
2534 points
19% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2038 points
2503 points
22% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

38.63 points
38.93 points
0.78% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2047 points
2793 points
36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

608 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
459 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2040 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1902 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

610 points
56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
390 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz
69% significantly higher clock speed
2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz
52% significantly higher turbo speed
2.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
Identical
95 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
40
150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
4
100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
384 GiB
1100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

628th of 1,109
604th of 1,109

Family

The product line

Core
Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February
2012 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

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