Intel Core i7-2630QM vs Intel Xeon E5-1603

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Intel Xeon E5-1603

Price

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$ 94.04

$ 657.96 significantly less expensive

$ 752.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1600 points

2% slightly better overall score

1564 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2625 points

2883 points

9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1298 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

1194 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1242 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

1145 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

24.19 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

22.30 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1290 points

1999 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

394 points

567 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1391 points

1475 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

444 points

468 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

45 W

188% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

788th of 1,089

793rd of 1,089

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-2630QM vs Xeon E5-1603 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-2630QM performs better than the Xeon E5-1603. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1603 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-2630QM has more threads. A Core i7-2630QM 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.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-2630QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.