Intel Core i7-3770 vs Intel Xeon E5-2650

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 174.85
$ 103.11
$ 71.74 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2575 points
2944 points
14% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4118 points
17% slightly better gaming score
3493 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2119 points
2761 points
30% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2036 points
2710 points
33% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

45.88 points
58.36 points
27% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2294 points
4002 points
74% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

672 points
30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
515 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2315 points
2564 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

673 points
66% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
403 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.40 GHz
70% significantly higher clock speed
2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
39% slightly higher turbo speed
2.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

77 W
23% slightly lower TDP
95 W

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

611th of 1,089
547th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May
2012 February

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 i7-3770 vs Xeon E5-2650 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2650 is faster than the Core i7-3770. Despite this, the Core i7-3770 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2650 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-3770. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2650 has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-3770. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3770. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-3770 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2650. Also, the Core i7-3770 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-3770 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2650 CPU because of its slightly 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 i7-3770 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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