Intel Xeon E5-2650 vs Intel Core i3-N305

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 8 core CPU vs Intel 8 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

2944 points

5% slightly better overall score

2781 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3493 points

4373 points

25% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2761 points

21% slightly better multitasking score

2279 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2710 points

25% slightly better heavy workload score

2166 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

58.36 points

33% slightly higher Blender score

43.57 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2564 points

4208 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

403 points

1145 points

184% 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

2 GHz

11% slightly higher clock speed

1.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

2.8 GHz

3.8 GHz

35% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

344% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

300% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

384 GiB

2299% significantly more supported memory

16 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

547th of 1,089

573rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

Core i3 N-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR4-3200

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2650 vs Core i3-N305 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-N305 beats the Xeon E5-2650 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2650 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Xeon E5-2650 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2650 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-N305.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2650 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.