Intel Core i3-5157U vs Intel Xeon E5450

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Intel Core i3-5157U CPU1 vs CPU2 Intel Xeon E5450
Intel Core i3-5157U Intel Xeon E5450

CPU comparison

Intel Core i3-5157U or Intel Xeon E5450 - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results.

The Intel Core i3-5157U has 2 cores with 4 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 2.50 GHz. Up to 16 GB of memory is supported in 2 memory channels. The Intel Core i3-5157U was released in Q1/2015.

The Intel Xeon E5450 has 4 cores with 4 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.00 GHz. The CPU supports up to GB of memory in 0 memory channels. The Intel Xeon E5450 was released in Q4/2007.
Intel Core i3 (205) Family Intel Xeon E (44)
Intel Core i 5000U (16) CPU group Intel Xeon E5400 (1)
5 Generation 0
Broadwell U Architecture Harpertown
Mobile Segment Desktop / Server
Intel Core i3-4158U Predecessor --
Intel Core i3-6157U Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Core i3-5157U is a 2 core processor with a clock frequency of 2.50 GHz. The Intel Xeon E5450 has 4 CPU cores with a clock frequency of 3.00 GHz.
Intel Core i3-5157U Characteristic Intel Xeon E5450
2 Cores 4
4 Threads 4
normal Core architecture normal
Yes Hyperthreading No
No Overclocking ? No
2.50 GHz Frequency 3.00 GHz
-- Turbo Frequency (1 Core) --
-- Turbo Frequency (All Cores) --

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.
Intel Core i3-5157U Characteristic Intel Xeon E5450
-- AI hardware --
-- AI specifications --

Internal Graphics

The integrated graphics unit of a processor is not only responsible for the pure image output on the system, but can also significantly increase the efficiency of the system with the support of modern video codecs.
Intel Iris Graphics 6100 GPU no iGPU
0.30 GHz GPU frequency --
1.00 GHz GPU (Turbo) --
8 GPU Generation --
14 nm Technology
3 Max. displays
48 Compute units --
384 Shader --
No Hardware Raytracing No
No Frame Generation No
16 GB Max. GPU Memory --
11.2 DirectX Version --

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.
Intel Iris Graphics 6100 GPU no iGPU
No Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) No
No Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) No
Decode / Encode Codec h264 No
No Codec VP9 No
Decode Codec VP8 No
No Codec AV1 No
Decode / Encode Codec AVC No
Decode Codec VC-1 No
Decode Codec JPEG No

Memory & PCIe

The Intel Core i3-5157U supports a maximum of 16 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The Intel Xeon E5450 can connect up to GB of memory in 0 memory channels.
Intel Core i3-5157U Characteristic Intel Xeon E5450
LPDDR3-1866, DDR3-1600 Memory DDR2
16 GB Max. Memory
2 (Dual Channel) Memory channels 0
29.9 GB/s Max. Bandwidth --
No ECC No
-- L2 Cache 12.00 MB
3.00 MB L3 Cache --
2.0 PCIe version --
12 PCIe lanes --
6.0 GB/s PCIe Bandwidth --

Thermal Management

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of a processor specifies the required cooling solution. The Intel Core i3-5157U has a TDP of 28 W, that of the Intel Xeon E5450 is 80 W.
Intel Core i3-5157U Characteristic Intel Xeon E5450
28 W TDP (PL1 / PBP) 80 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up --
23 W TDP down --
105 °C Tjunction max. --

Technical details

The Intel Core i3-5157U has a 3.00 MB cache, while the Intel Xeon E5450 cache has a total of 12.00 MB.
Intel Core i3-5157U Characteristic Intel Xeon E5450
14 nm Technology 45 nm
Monolithic Chip design Monolithic
x86-64 (64 bit) Instruction set (ISA) x86-64 (64 bit)
SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 ISA extensions --
BGA 1168 Socket LGA 771
VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d Virtualization VT-x
Yes AES-NI No
Windows 10, Linux Operating systems Windows 10, Linux
Q1/2015 Release date Q4/2007
-- Release price 969 $
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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 3 CPU benchmarks
Intel Core i3-5157U (100%)
Intel Xeon E5450 (74%)
⌀ Multi core performance in 4 CPU benchmarks
Intel Core i3-5157U (91%)
Intel Xeon E5450 (95%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Core i3-5157U Intel Core i3-5157U
2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz
620 (100%)
Intel Xeon E5450 Intel Xeon E5450
4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
528 (85%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Core i3-5157U Intel Core i3-5157U
2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz
1398 (81%)
Intel Xeon E5450 Intel Xeon E5450
4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
1728 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.
Intel Core i3-5157U Intel Core i3-5157U
2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz
793 (100%)
Intel Xeon E5450 Intel Xeon E5450
4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
448 (56%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.
Intel Core i3-5157U Intel Core i3-5157U
2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz
1583 (100%)
Intel Xeon E5450 Intel Xeon E5450
4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
1308 (83%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.
Intel Core i3-5157U Intel Core i3-5157U
2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz
2599 (100%)
Intel Xeon E5450 Intel Xeon E5450
4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
2483 (96%)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Core i3-5157U Intel Core i3-5157U
2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz
102 (100%)
Intel Xeon E5450 Intel Xeon E5450
4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
84 (82%)

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Core i3-5157U Intel Core i3-5157U
2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz
263 (81%)
Intel Xeon E5450 Intel Xeon E5450
4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
326 (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Core i3-5157U Intel Core i3-5157U
2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Xeon E5450 Intel Xeon E5450
4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
458 (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Core i3-5157U Intel Core i3-5157U
2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Xeon E5450 Intel Xeon E5450
4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
1781 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Core i3-5157U Intel Core i3-5157U
2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Xeon E5450 Intel Xeon E5450
4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
185 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Core i3-5157U Intel Core i3-5157U
2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Xeon E5450 Intel Xeon E5450
4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
721 (100%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
Intel Core i3-5157U Intel Core i3-5157U
Intel Iris Graphics 6100 @ 1.00 GHz
768 (100%)
Intel Xeon E5450 Intel Xeon E5450
@ 0.00 GHz
0 (0%)

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)

Blender is a free 3D graphics software for rendering (creating) 3D bodies, which can also be textured and animated in the software. The Blender benchmark creates predefined scenes and measures the time (s) required for the entire scene. The shorter the time required, the better. We selected bmw27 as the benchmark scene.
Intel Core i3-5157U Intel Core i3-5157U
2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Xeon E5450 Intel Xeon E5450
4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
524 (100%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Single-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
Intel Core i3-5157U Intel Core i3-5157U
2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Xeon E5450 Intel Xeon E5450
4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
271 (100%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
Intel Core i3-5157U Intel Core i3-5157U
2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Xeon E5450 Intel Xeon E5450
4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
1019 (100%)

Devices using this processor
Intel Core i3-5157U Intel Xeon E5450
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