Intel Core i7-3720QM vs Intel Xeon E3-1230 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 E3-1230 v3

Price

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$ 99.95

$ 178.55 significantly less expensive

$ 278.50

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2112 points

2545 points

20% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3499 points

3940 points

12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1701 points

2128 points

25% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1632 points

2046 points

25% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

42.68 points

61.88 points

44% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2033 points

3681 points

81% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

602 points

1126 points

87% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1978 points

3699 points

87% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

586 points

1160 points

97% significantly 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

2.6 GHz

3.3 GHz

26% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

3.7 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

77% significantly lower TDP

80 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

703rd of 1,089

617th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

2013 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 i7-3720QM vs Xeon E3-1230 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1230 v3 beats the Core i7-3720QM in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-3720QM has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1230 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3720QM. Also, the Xeon E3-1230 v3 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-3720QM CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1230 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 i7-3720QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.