Intel Core i7-870 vs Intel Xeon E5-620

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1927 points
1976 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3069 points
13% slightly better gaming score
2711 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1587 points
1746 points
10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1524 points
1694 points
11% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.74 points
46% significantly higher Blender score
25.76 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1550 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1482 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

475 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
366 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.93 GHz
15% slightly higher clock speed
2.53 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz
35% slightly higher turbo speed
2.66 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
80 W
18% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
3
49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

16 GiB
288 GiB
1699% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

740th of 1,102
733rd of 1,102

Family

The product line

Core
Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 August
2010 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

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