Intel Core i7-3770K vs Intel Xeon E3-1230 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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Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3

Price

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$ 344.89

$ 278.50

$ 66.39 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2702 points

6% slightly better overall score

2545 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4366 points

10% slightly better gaming score

3940 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2208 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

2128 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2118 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

2046 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2148 points

3667 points

70% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

47.21 points

61.88 points

31% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2474 points

3681 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

708 points

1126 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2489 points

3699 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

709 points

1160 points

63% significantly 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

3.5 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 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

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

Identical

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

588th of 1,089

617th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-3770K vs Xeon E3-1230 v3 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-3770K performs better than the Xeon E3-1230 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1230 v3 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-3770K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1230 v3. Also, the Core i7-3770K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-3770K CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1230 v3 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-3770K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.