Intel Core i7-2600 vs Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3

Compare Intel Core 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 E3-1231 v3

Price

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$ 226.37

$ 49.38

$ 176.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2539 points

2675 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3984 points

4187 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2108 points

2229 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2031 points

2142 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3013 points

31% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

2287 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

38.63 points

65.17 points

68% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2047 points

3858 points

88% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

608 points

1168 points

92% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2040 points

3756 points

84% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

610 points

1192 points

95% significantly 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

3.4 GHz

Identical

3.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

Identical

3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

80 W

18% slightly lower TDP

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

32 GiB

Identical

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

619th of 1,089

598th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-2600 vs Xeon E3-1231 v3 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1231 v3 is faster than the Core i7-2600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-2600 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. In terms of clock speed, the Core i7-2600 and Xeon E3-1231 v3 are identical in this regard. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1231 v3 outputs less heat than Core i7-2600 thanks to a slightly 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. Indeed, the Core i7-2600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.