Intel Core i7-3632QM vs Intel Xeon E5-2420

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 169.95
$ 185.60 significantly less expensive
$ 355.55

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2124 points
2140 points
0.75% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3467 points
16% slightly better gaming score
2978 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1729 points
1875 points
8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1661 points
1814 points
9% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

30.63 points
36.28 points
18% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1650 points
2643 points
60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

512 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
453 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1722 points
1814 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

510 points
34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
378 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

2.2 GHz
15% slightly higher clock speed
1.9 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.2 GHz
33% slightly higher turbo speed
2.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
171% significantly lower TDP
95 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
24
49% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
3
49% 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

700th of 1,089
697th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 August
2012 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i7-3632QM vs Xeon E5-2420 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2420 is faster than the Core i7-3632QM. Despite this, the Core i7-3632QM has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2420 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-3632QM. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2420 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-3632QM. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3632QM. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-3632QM has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2420. Also, the Core i7-3632QM has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-3632QM CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2420 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 i7-3632QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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