Intel Xeon E3-1230 vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550

Compare Intel Xeon E3 Family 4 core CPU vs Intel Core 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550

Price

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$ 265.87

$ 48.02

$ 217.85 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2180 points

60% significantly better overall score

1362 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3414 points

36% slightly better gaming score

2497 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1814 points

74% significantly better multitasking score

1042 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1741 points

74% significantly better heavy workload score

1000 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

29.69 points

50% significantly higher Blender score

19.72 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2572 points

137% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1084 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

671 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

362 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1979 points

88% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1048 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

585 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

371 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

13% slightly higher clock speed

2.83 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

80 W

18% slightly lower TDP

95 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

686th of 1,089

850th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 Family

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 May

2008 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E3-1230 vs Core 2 Quad Q9550 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E3-1230 performs better than the Core 2 Quad Q9550. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 2 Quad Q9550 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Xeon E3-1230 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1230 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core 2 Quad Q9550. A Xeon E3-1230 CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Quad Q9550 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. 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 Xeon E3-1230 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.