Intel Core i7-930 vs Intel Xeon E5-2620

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

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 307.29
$ 207.15
$ 100.14 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1941 points
2694 points
38% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3145 points
3212 points
2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1583 points
2534 points
60% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1519 points
2503 points
64% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.18 points
38.93 points
38% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1490 points
2793 points
87% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

432 points
459 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1449 points
1902 points
31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

425 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
390 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

2.8 GHz
40% slightly higher clock speed
2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.06 GHz
22% slightly higher turbo speed
2.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W
95 W
36% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

3
4
33% slightly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

24 GiB
384 GiB
1500% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

729th of 1,089
591st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 February
2012 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

Core i7-930 vs Xeon E5-2620 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2620 is faster than the Core i7-930. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-930 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2620 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-930. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2620 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-930. It also has more threads than the Core i7-930. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-930 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2620. Also, the Core i7-930 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2620 outputs less heat than Core i7-930 thanks to a 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 i7-930 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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