Intel Core i7-3720QM vs Intel Xeon E5-620

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2112 points
2198 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3499 points
22% slightly better gaming score
2867 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1701 points
1984 points
16% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1632 points
1931 points
18% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

42.68 points
65% significantly higher Blender score
25.76 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1978 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1482 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

586 points
60% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
366 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed
2.53 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz
35% slightly higher turbo speed
2.66 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
77% significantly lower TDP
80 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
3
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

710th of 1,100
690th of 1,100

Family

The product line

Core
Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May
2010 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

No
Yes

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