Intel Core i7-2820QM vs Intel Xeon E3-1226 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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Intel Xeon E3-1226 v3

Price

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$ 229.95

$ 99.00

$ 130.95 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2212 points

2307 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3474 points

4249 points

22% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1842 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

1762 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1774 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

1691 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

26.94 points

45.99 points

70% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1202 points

2832 points

135% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

520 points

871 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1622 points

3291 points

102% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

519 points

1157 points

122% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz

3.3 GHz

43% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

3.7 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

86% significantly lower TDP

84 W

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

680th of 1,089

658th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2014 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 i7-2820QM vs Xeon E3-1226 v3 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1226 v3 is faster than the Core i7-2820QM. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-2820QM in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-2820QM has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1226 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-2820QM. Also, the Xeon E3-1226 v3 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-2820QM CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1226 v3 CPU because of its significantly 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 i7-2820QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.