Intel Core i7-2600K vs Intel Xeon E3-1241 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 E3-1241 v3

Price

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$ 84.99

$ 169.75 significantly less expensive

$ 254.74

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2571 points

2688 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4067 points

4287 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2123 points

2219 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2039 points

2132 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

44.04 points

48.98 points

11% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2292 points

3840 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

665 points

1164 points

75% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2289 points

3893 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

665 points

1220 points

83% 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

3.5 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

3.9 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

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

612th of 1,089

592nd 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 i7-2600K vs Xeon E3-1241 v3 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E3-1241 v3 performs better than the Core i7-2600K. Despite this, the Core i7-2600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1241 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-2600K. Also, the Xeon E3-1241 v3 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1241 v3 outputs less heat than Core i7-2600K thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-2600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.