Intel Xeon E5-430 vs Intel Xeon X5650

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

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Intel Xeon X5650

Price

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$ 129.95

$ 46.96

$ 82.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2250 points

1% slightly better overall score

2207 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3133 points

3219 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1956 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

1889 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1887 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

1825 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

9.25 points

44.76 points

383% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1179 points

2315 points

96% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

376 points

451 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1041 points

2241 points

115% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

356 points

445 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

2.66 GHz

Identical

2.66 GHz

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

700% significantly more L2 cache

1.5 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

673rd of 1,089

682nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2007 November

2010 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 X5650 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-430 beats the Xeon X5650 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon X5650 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon X5650 has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-430. Indeed, the Xeon X5650 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E5-430. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-430. According to our data, the Xeon E5-430 and Xeon X5650 have the same clock speed. A Xeon E5-430 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5650 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Xeon E5-430 has more L2 cache than the Xeon X5650

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.