Intel Xeon W3550 vs Intel Xeon X5687

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 X5687

Price

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$ 49.95

$ 140.00 significantly less expensive

$ 189.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1970 points

4% slightly better overall score

1892 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3191 points

3477 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1606 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

1446 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1541 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

1388 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

24.84 points

42.49 points

71% significantly higher Blender 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

3.06 GHz

3.59 GHz

17% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.33 GHz

3.86 GHz

15% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

Identical

130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

24 GiB

288 GiB

1100% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

Identical

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

12 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

726th of 1,089

740th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 August

2011 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 W3550 vs Xeon X5687 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon W3550 beats the Xeon X5687 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon X5687 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Xeon W3550 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon X5687 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon W3550. Also, the Xeon X5687 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Xeon X5687 also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon W3550 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.