Intel Core i7-3770S vs Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2

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

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Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2

Price

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$ 158.02

$ 31.93 slightly less expensive

$ 189.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2590 points

1% slightly better overall score

2544 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4291 points

5% slightly better gaming score

4070 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2091 points

Identical

2091 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2007 points

2009 points

0.10% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

45.01 points

13% slightly higher Blender score

39.80 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

3.30 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

609th of 1,089

618th of 1,089

Family

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-3770S vs Xeon E3-1230 V2 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E3-1230 V2 performs better than the Core i7-3770S. Despite this, the Core i7-3770S has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1230 V2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3770S.

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 i7-3770S has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.