Intel Xeon E5-649 vs Intel Xeon W3550

Compare Intel Xeon 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 W3550

Price

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$ 129.95

$ 49.95

$ 80.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1937 points

1970 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3123 points

3191 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1567 points

1606 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1504 points

1541 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

55.00 points

121% significantly higher Blender score

24.84 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2109 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1586 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

415 points

458 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.53 GHz

3.06 GHz

20% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

2.93 GHz

3.33 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

80 W

62% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

288 GiB

1100% significantly more supported memory

24 GiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

730th of 1,089

726th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2009 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-649 vs Xeon W3550 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon W3550 beats the Xeon E5-649 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-649 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-649 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Xeon W3550 that has 4 cores. Despite this, the Xeon W3550 has more threads than the Xeon E5-649. Our comparison shows that the Xeon W3550 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-649. Also, the Xeon W3550 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-649 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon W3550 CPU because of its significantly 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 E5-649 has more L2 cache than the Xeon W3550. The Xeon E5-649 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 E5-649 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.