Intel Core i7-3820QM vs Intel Xeon E5-430

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 E5-430

Price

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$ 499.00

$ 129.95

$ 369.05 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1913 points

2250 points

17% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3059 points

3133 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1573 points

1956 points

24% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1510 points

1887 points

24% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

41.56 points

349% significantly higher Blender score

9.25 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2717 points

130% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1179 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

717 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

376 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2007 points

92% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1041 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

602 points

69% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

356 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

2.7 GHz

1% slightly higher clock speed

2.66 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

77% significantly lower TDP

80 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

733rd of 1,089

673rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

2007 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-3820QM vs Xeon E5-430 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-430 beats the Core i7-3820QM in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3820QM in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-3820QM has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-3820QM has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-430. A Core i7-3820QM CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-430 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 i7-3820QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.