Intel Core i7-3610QM 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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$ 189.95

$ 99.00

$ 90.95 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1810 points

2307 points

27% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2981 points

4249 points

42% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1464 points

1762 points

20% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1405 points

1691 points

20% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.63 points

45.99 points

22% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1794 points

2832 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

531 points

871 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1836 points

3291 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

539 points

1157 points

114% 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

3.3 GHz

3.7 GHz

12% 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

756th 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

2012 May

2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-3610QM vs Xeon E3-1226 v3 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E3-1226 v3 performs better than the Core i7-3610QM. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3610QM in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-3610QM has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1226 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3610QM. Also, the Xeon E3-1226 v3 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-3610QM 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 i7-3610QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.