Intel Core i7-2700K vs Intel Xeon E3-1270 V2

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel 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

2678 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3839 points

4361 points

13% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2213 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

2181 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2133 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

2092 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

44.33 points

50.58 points

14% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2222 points

2287 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

627 points

663 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2293 points

2338 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

672 points

Identical

672 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

3.50 GHz

0.03% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

608th of 1,089

597th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-2700K vs Xeon E3-1270 V2 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-2700K is faster than the Xeon E3-1270 V2. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1270 V2 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1270 V2 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-2700K.

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.