Intel Core i7-3770K vs Intel Xeon E5-2689

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 344.89
$ 109.95
$ 234.94 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2702 points
4209 points
55% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4366 points
4875 points
11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2208 points
3976 points
80% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2118 points
3900 points
84% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

47.21 points
78.82 points
66% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

77 W
49% significantly lower TDP
115 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

588th of 1,089
418th 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 i7-3770K vs Xeon E5-2689 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2689 is faster than the Core i7-3770K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3770K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2689 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-3770K. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2689 has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-3770K. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3770K. A Core i7-3770K CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2689 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 i7-3770K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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