Intel Core i7-3770 vs Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 10 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
$ 105.77
$ 69.08 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2575 points
4438 points
72% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4118 points
4819 points
17% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2119 points
4302 points
103% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2036 points
4265 points
109% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

45.88 points
100.42 points
118% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2294 points
3964 points
72% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

672 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
549 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2315 points
3854 points
66% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

673 points
19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
563 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
10
150% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
20
150% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.40 GHz
21% slightly higher clock speed
2.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
8% slightly higher turbo speed
3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

77 W
49% significantly lower TDP
115 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
4
100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
768 GiB
2299% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

611th of 1,089
396th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
Xeon E5 v2 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May
2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i7-3770 vs Xeon E5-2680 v2 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2680 v2 is faster than the Core i7-3770. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3770 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2680 v2 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-3770. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2680 v2 has 10 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-3770. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3770. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-3770 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2680 v2. Also, the Core i7-3770 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-3770 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2680 v2 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 i7-3770 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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