Intel Core i7-3770 vs Intel Xeon E3-1240 V2

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

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 174.85
$ 150.00
$ 24.85 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2575 points
0.51% slightly better overall score
2562 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4118 points
1% slightly better gaming score
4064 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2119 points
0.24% slightly better multitasking score
2114 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2036 points
0.34% slightly better heavy workload score
2029 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

45.88 points
15% slightly higher Blender score
39.73 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

3.40 GHz
Identical
3.40 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
Identical
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
Identical
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

611th of 1,089
613th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-3770 vs Xeon E3-1240 V2 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-3770 is faster than the Xeon E3-1240 V2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1240 V2 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. According to our data, the Core i7-3770 and Xeon E3-1240 V2 have the same clock speed. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache and L3 cache.

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 i7-3770 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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