Intel Core i7-3720QM vs Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2

Core i7-3720QM vs Xeon E3-1230 V2 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E3-1230 V2 performs better than the Core i7-3720QM. Despite this, the Core i7-3720QM 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1230 V2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3720QM.

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 i7-3720QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.