Intel Xeon X3440 vs Intel Core i5-2500. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Family
  Intel Xeon X Intel Core i5
• CPU group
  Intel Xeon X Intel Core i 2000
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Generation
  0 2

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Overclocking
  Yes No
• Frequency
  2.53 GHz 3.30 GHz

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  no iGPU Intel HD Graphics 2000
• GPU frequency
  0.85 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 1.10 GHz
• Execution units
  6
• Shader
  48
• Max. displays
  2
• Generation
  6
• Technology
  32 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2011

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• h264
  No Decode / Encode
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• JPEG
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i5-2500 and Intel Xeon X3440. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1066DDR3-1333DDR3-800 DDR3-1333
• Max. Memory
  32 GB 32 GB
• Memory channels
  2 (Dual Channel) 2
• ECC
  Yes No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon X3440 and Intel Core i5-2500 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon X3440 and Intel Xeon X3440, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Technology
  45 nm 32 nm
• Socket
  LGA 1156 LGA 1155
• L2-Cache
  8.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  -- 6.00 MB
• Architecture
  Lynnfield Sandy Bridge S
• Virtualization
  VT-d, VT-x, VT-x EPT VT-x, VT-x EPT
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
• Release date
  Q3/2009 Q1/2011