Intel Core i7-2630QM vs Intel Xeon E5-520

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-520

Price

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$ 94.04

$ 24.60

$ 69.44 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1600 points

1676 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2625 points

5% slightly better gaming score

2485 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1298 points

1418 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1242 points

1363 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

24.19 points

12% slightly higher Blender score

21.48 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1290 points

1691 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

394 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

385 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1391 points

1430 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

444 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

362 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 GHz

2.26 GHz

13% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

2.9 GHz

14% slightly higher turbo speed

2.53 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

77% significantly lower TDP

80 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

16 GiB

144 GiB

800% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

788th of 1,089

780th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2009 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-2630QM vs Xeon E5-520 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-520 performs better than the Core i7-2630QM. Despite this, the Core i7-2630QM 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. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-520 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-2630QM. Despite this, the Core i7-2630QM has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-2630QM CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-520 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 i7-2630QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.