Intel Core i7-920 vs Intel Xeon E5-1603

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Intel Xeon E5-1603

Price

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$ 99.95

$ 652.05 significantly less expensive

$ 752.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1474 points

1564 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2489 points

2883 points

15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1179 points

1194 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1132 points

1145 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

31.28 points

40% slightly higher Blender score

22.30 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points

1999 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

419 points

567 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1431 points

1475 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

415 points

468 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

Identical

130 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

814th of 1,089

793rd of 1,089

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2008 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-920 vs Xeon E5-1603 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1603 beats the Core i7-920 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-920 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-920 has more threads. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i7-920 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.