Intel Xeon X5650 vs Intel Xeon E3-1220 v5

Compare Intel Xeon 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v5 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 46.96
$ 282.99 significantly less expensive
$ 329.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2207 points
2407 points
9% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3219 points
4431 points
37% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1889 points
2% slightly better multitasking score
1840 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1825 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score
1766 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

44.76 points
47.62 points
6% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2315 points
3379 points
45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

451 points
1204 points
166% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2241 points
3325 points
48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

445 points
1198 points
169% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
49% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
200% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.66 GHz
3.00 GHz
12% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.06 GHz
3.5 GHz
14% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
80 W
18% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

3
49% significantly more memory channels
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

288 GiB
350% significantly more supported memory
64 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

682nd of 1,089
642nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon
Xeon E3 v5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 February
2015 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR4-1866

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
Yes

Xeon X5650 vs Xeon E3-1220 v5 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1220 v5 is faster than the Xeon X5650. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X5650 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon X5650 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Xeon E3-1220 v5 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1220 v5. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1220 v5 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon X5650. Also, the Xeon E3-1220 v5 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1220 v5 outputs less heat than Xeon X5650 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Xeon X5650 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E3-1220 v5. The Xeon X5650 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 X5650 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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