Intel Core i7-3740QM vs Intel Xeon E3-1220 v5

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v5 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E3-1220 v5

Price

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$ 2252.00

$ 329.95

$ 1922.05 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2493 points

3% slightly better overall score

2407 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3957 points

4431 points

11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2061 points

12% slightly better multitasking score

1840 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1979 points

12% slightly better heavy workload score

1766 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

43.44 points

47.62 points

9% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2018 points

3379 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

611 points

1204 points

97% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1995 points

3325 points

66% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

599 points

1198 points

100% 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

3.00 GHz

11% 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

64 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

629th of 1,089

642nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon E3 v5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 August

2015 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR4-1866

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-3740QM vs Xeon E3-1220 v5 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-3740QM is faster than the Xeon E3-1220 v5. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1220 v5 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-3740QM has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1220 v5 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 v5 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.