Intel Core i7-3770 vs Intel Xeon E3-1241 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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Price

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$ 174.85
$ 79.89 significantly less expensive
$ 254.74

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2575 points
2688 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4118 points
4287 points
4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2119 points
2219 points
4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2036 points
2132 points
4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

45.88 points
48.98 points
6% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2294 points
3840 points
67% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

672 points
1164 points
73% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2315 points
3893 points
68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

673 points
1220 points
81% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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
3.5 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
Identical
3.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

77 W
3% slightly lower TDP
80 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
Identical
32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

611th of 1,089
592nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
Xeon E3 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May
2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i7-3770 vs Xeon E3-1241 v3 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-3770 is faster than the Xeon E3-1241 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1241 v3 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1241 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3770. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. A Core i7-3770 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1241 v3 CPU because of its slightly 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 i7-3770 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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