Intel Core i7-2700K vs Intel Xeon E3-1230

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E3-1230

Price

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$ 189.88

$ 75.99 significantly less expensive

$ 265.87

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2597 points

19% slightly better overall score

2180 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3839 points

12% slightly better gaming score

3414 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2213 points

21% slightly better multitasking score

1814 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2133 points

22% slightly better heavy workload score

1741 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

44.33 points

49% significantly higher Blender score

29.69 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2222 points

2572 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

627 points

671 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2293 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1979 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

672 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

585 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

3.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 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

25% slightly more pcie lanes

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

608th of 1,089

686th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon E3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 November

2011 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-2700K vs Xeon E3-1230 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-2700K performs better than the Xeon E3-1230. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1230 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-2700K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E3-1230. Also, the Core i7-2700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1230 outputs less heat than Core i7-2700K thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-2700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.