Intel Xeon E5-430 vs Intel Xeon X5570

Compare Intel Xeon 4 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 X5570

Price

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$ 129.95

$ 98.95

$ 31.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2250 points

2% slightly better overall score

2200 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3133 points

3421 points

9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1956 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

1823 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1887 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

1750 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1179 points

2624 points

122% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

376 points

541 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1041 points

1741 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

356 points

480 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.66 GHz

2.93 GHz

10% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

80 W

18% slightly lower TDP

95 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

12 MiB

1100% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

673rd of 1,089

685th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2007 November

2009 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 E5-430 vs Xeon X5570 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-430 is faster than the Xeon X5570. Despite this, the Xeon X5570 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon X5570 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-430. A Xeon E5-430 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5570 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Xeon E5-430 has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon X5570

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. For instance, the Xeon E5-430 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.