Intel Core i7-2600K vs Intel Xeon E3-1245 v3

Core i7-2600K vs Xeon E3-1245 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-2600K beats the Xeon E3-1245 v3 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1245 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 i7-2600K and Xeon E3-1245 v3 are identical in this regard. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1245 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.

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