Intel Core i7-950 vs Intel Xeon E5-1603

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

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Intel Xeon E5-1603

Price

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$ 31.00

$ 721.00 significantly less expensive

$ 752.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1367 points

1564 points

14% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2145 points

2883 points

34% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1130 points

1194 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1084 points

1145 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

30.71 points

37% slightly higher Blender score

22.30 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1595 points

1999 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

460 points

567 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1494 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1475 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

457 points

468 points

2% 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

874th of 1,127

819th of 1,127

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-950 vs Xeon E5-1603 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-1603 performs better than the Core i7-950. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-950 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-950 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.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-950 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.