Intel Pentium G2020 vs Intel Xeon E5-1650

Compare Intel Pentium G Series 2 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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Intel Xeon E5-1650

Price

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$ 34.99

$ 31.01 significantly less expensive

$ 66.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

934 points

3446 points

268% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2034 points

4699 points

131% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

666 points

3046 points

357% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

640 points

2950 points

360% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

9.25 points

55.26 points

497% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

802 points

3081 points

284% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

474 points

640 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

817 points

2889 points

253% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

476 points

595 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

499% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz

3.2 GHz

10% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

55 W

136% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

256 GiB

700% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

972nd of 1,089

490th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium G Series

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 February

2012 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Pentium G2020 vs Xeon E5-1650 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1650 beats the Pentium G2020 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium G2020 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-1650 has significantly more cores than the Pentium G2020. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1650 has 6 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium G2020. It also has more threads than the Pentium G2020. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-1650 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Pentium G2020. A Pentium G2020 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1650 CPU because of its significantly 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. For instance, the Pentium G2020 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.