Intel Core i7-2600 vs Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2

Core i7-2600 vs Xeon E3-1230 V2 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E3-1230 V2 performs better than the Core i7-2600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-2600 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-2600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E3-1230 V2.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-2600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.