Intel Core i7-3630QM vs Intel Xeon X5687

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

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Intel Xeon X5687

Price

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$ 229.00

$ 189.95

$ 39.05 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1913 points

1% slightly better overall score

1892 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2976 points

3477 points

16% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1587 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

1446 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1523 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

1388 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

36.41 points

42.49 points

16% slightly higher Blender 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

2.4 GHz

3.59 GHz

49% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

3.86 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

188% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

288 GiB

800% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

734th of 1,089

740th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 August

2011 February

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 i7-3630QM vs Xeon X5687 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-3630QM performs better than the Xeon X5687. Despite this, the Xeon X5687 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-3630QM has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon X5687 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-3630QM. Also, the Xeon X5687 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-3630QM CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5687 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-3630QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.