Intel Core i3-4170 vs Intel Xeon E3-1245 v3

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1489 points
2437 points
63% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2858 points
4011 points
40% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1121 points
1975 points
76% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1076 points
1896 points
76% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

27.13 points
58.49 points
115% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2036 points
3734 points
83% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1049 points
1146 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2163 points
3820 points
76% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1119 points
1203 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
8% slightly higher clock speed
3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

54 W
55% significantly lower TDP
84 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
Identical
16

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
Identical
32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

811th of 1,089
639th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i3
Xeon E3 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 February
2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
Yes

Core i3-4170 vs Xeon E3-1245 v3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1245 v3 is faster than the Core i3-4170. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-4170 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E3-1245 v3 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i3-4170 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-4170. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-4170 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E3-1245 v3. A Core i3-4170 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1245 v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 Core i3-4170 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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