Intel Core i7-2700K vs Intel Xeon E3-1245 v3

Core i7-2700K vs Xeon E3-1245 v3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1245 v3 beats the Core i7-2700K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-2700K in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount 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 E3-1245 v3. Also, the Core i7-2700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1245 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.

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 i7-2700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.