Intel Core i7-2700K vs Intel Xeon E3-1240 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2597 points

2685 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3839 points

4156 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2213 points

2246 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2133 points

2159 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

44.33 points

69.40 points

56% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2222 points

3742 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

627 points

1145 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2293 points

3690 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

672 points

1181 points

75% 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

3.5 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

3.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

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

608th of 1,089

594th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 November

2013 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 i7-2700K vs Xeon E3-1240 v3 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1240 v3 is faster than the Core i7-2700K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-2700K 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. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-2700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1240 v3. Also, the Core i7-2700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1240 v3 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.