Intel Core i7-3740QM vs Intel Xeon E3-1220 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 E3-1220 v3

Price

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$ 2252.00

$ 223.11

$ 2028.89 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2493 points

24% slightly better overall score

2007 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3957 points

6% slightly better gaming score

3728 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2061 points

34% slightly better multitasking score

1528 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1979 points

34% slightly better heavy workload score

1468 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

43.44 points

50.68 points

16% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2018 points

2942 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

611 points

1026 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1995 points

3227 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

599 points

1124 points

87% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) 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

2.7 GHz

3.1 GHz

14% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 GHz

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

629th of 1,089

713th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 August

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 i7-3740QM vs Xeon E3-1220 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3740QM beats the Xeon E3-1220 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1220 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-3740QM has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1220 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3740QM. Despite this, the Core i7-3740QM has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-3740QM CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1220 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 i7-3740QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.