Intel Core i7-3770K vs Intel Xeon E5-1620 v3

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-1620 v3

Price

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$ 344.89

$ 119.95

$ 224.94 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2702 points

0.78% slightly better overall score

2681 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4366 points

3% slightly better gaming score

4224 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2208 points

2223 points

0.68% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2118 points

2134 points

0.76% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

47.21 points

61.49 points

30% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2474 points

3546 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

708 points

1027 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2489 points

3886 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

709 points

1093 points

54% 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

Identical

3.5 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

81% significantly lower TDP

140 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

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

588th of 1,089

595th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR4-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-3770K vs Xeon E5-1620 v3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1620 v3 beats the Core i7-3770K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-3770K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Both the Core i7-3770K and Xeon E5-1620 v3 have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i7-3770K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-3770K CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1620 v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-3770K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.