Intel Xeon E5-2630 vs Intel Xeon E5-430

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-430

Price

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$ 856.38

$ 129.95

$ 726.43 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2586 points

14% slightly better overall score

2250 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3592 points

14% slightly better gaming score

3133 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2259 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

1956 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2183 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

1887 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

38.04 points

311% significantly higher Blender score

9.25 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3117 points

164% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1179 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

510 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

376 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2380 points

128% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1041 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

448 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

356 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz

2.66 GHz

15% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

80 W

18% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

610th of 1,089

673rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

2007 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2630 vs Xeon E5-430 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2630 is faster than the Xeon E5-430. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-430 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2630 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Xeon E5-430 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-430. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-430 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2630. The Xeon E5-430 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2630 thanks to a slightly 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. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2630 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.