Intel Core i7-950 vs Intel Xeon E5-620

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1990 points
0.71% slightly better overall score
1976 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3211 points
18% slightly better gaming score
2711 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1624 points
1746 points
7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1559 points
1694 points
8% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

30.71 points
19% slightly higher Blender score
25.76 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1494 points
0.81% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1482 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

457 points
24% 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

3.06 GHz
21% slightly higher clock speed
2.53 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.33 GHz
25% slightly higher turbo speed
2.66 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W
80 W
62% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

3
Identical
3

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

24 GiB
288 GiB
1100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

729th of 1,102
733rd of 1,102

Family

The product line

Core
Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 May
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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