Intel Core i7-3740QM vs Intel Xeon E5-1620

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-1620

Price

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$ 2252.00

$ 153.08

$ 2098.92 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2493 points

2735 points

9% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3957 points

4274 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2061 points

2280 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1979 points

2192 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

43.44 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

40.70 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2018 points

2284 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

611 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

592 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1995 points

2244 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

599 points

611 points

2% slightly 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

2.7 GHz

3.6 GHz

33% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

3.8 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

188% significantly lower TDP

130 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

375 GiB

1071% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

629th of 1,089

582nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 August

2012 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

Yes

Core i7-3740QM vs Xeon E5-1620 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-1620 performs better than the Core i7-3740QM. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3740QM in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-1620 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3740QM. Also, the Xeon E5-1620 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-3740QM CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1620 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.