Intel Core i7-3610QM vs Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2

Price

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$ 189.95

$ 30.00

$ 159.95 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1810 points

2286 points

26% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2981 points

3603 points

20% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1464 points

1895 points

29% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1405 points

1822 points

29% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.63 points

49.31 points

31% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1794 points

2305 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

531 points

633 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1836 points

2380 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

539 points

645 points

19% slightly 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

2.3 GHz

3.7 GHz

60% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz

3.9 GHz

18% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

188% significantly lower TDP

130 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

256 GiB

700% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

756th of 1,089

665th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon E5 v2 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-3610QM vs Xeon E5-1620 v2 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-3610QM is faster than the Xeon E5-1620 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1620 v2 in all gaming tests too.

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 E5-1620 v2 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-3610QM. Also, the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-3610QM CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1620 v2 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-3610QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.