Intel Xeon E3-1230 vs Intel Core i5-6500TE

Compare Intel Xeon E3 Family 4 core CPU vs Intel 6th Generation Core i5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2180 points

7% slightly better overall score

2031 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3414 points

3776 points

10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1814 points

17% slightly better multitasking score

1545 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1741 points

17% slightly better heavy workload score

1483 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2572 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2515 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

671 points

783 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1979 points

2800 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

585 points

1078 points

84% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

39% slightly higher clock speed

2.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

9% slightly higher turbo speed

3.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

80 W

35 W

128% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

64 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

686th of 1,089

711th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 Family

6th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 May

2015 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR4-1866

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E3-1230 vs Core i5-6500TE specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1230 beats the Core i5-6500TE in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-6500TE has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Xeon E3-1230 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1230 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-6500TE. Also, the Xeon E3-1230 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-6500TE outputs less heat than Xeon E3-1230 thanks to a significantly 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.