Intel Core i5-7300HQ vs Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i5 4 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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Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3

Price

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$ 1738.00

$ 223.11

$ 1514.89 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2070 points

3% slightly better overall score

2007 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3797 points

1% slightly better gaming score

3728 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1588 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

1528 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1528 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

1468 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

39.14 points

50.68 points

29% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2896 points

2942 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1058 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1026 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3044 points

3227 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1119 points

1124 points

0.45% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz

3.1 GHz

24% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

Identical

3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

77% significantly lower TDP

80 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

708th of 1,089

713th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i5

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-7300HQ vs Xeon E3-1220 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-7300HQ beats the Xeon E3-1220 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1220 v3 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1220 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-7300HQ. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. A Core i5-7300HQ CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1220 v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Core i5-7300HQ has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.