Intel Xeon E5-1603 vs Intel Xeon E5-1620

Compare Intel 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-1620

Price

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$ 752.00

$ 153.08

$ 598.92 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1564 points

2735 points

74% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2883 points

4274 points

48% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1194 points

2280 points

90% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1145 points

2192 points

91% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

22.30 points

40.70 points

82% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1999 points

2284 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

567 points

592 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1475 points

2244 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

468 points

611 points

30% 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

793rd of 1,089

582nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 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 E5-1603 vs Xeon E5-1620 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1620 beats the Xeon E5-1603 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1603 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Xeon E5-1620 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.

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 Xeon E5-1603 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.