Intel Core i7-3820QM vs Intel Xeon E3-1225 V2

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1913 points
1956 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3059 points
3586 points
17% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1573 points
5% slightly better multitasking score
1496 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1510 points
5% slightly better heavy workload score
1436 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

41.56 points
25% slightly higher Blender score
33.16 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2007 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1894 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

602 points
631 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.7 GHz
3.19 GHz
18% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

750th of 1,115
743rd of 1,115

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 i7-3820QM vs Xeon E3-1225 V2 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1225 V2 is faster than the Core i7-3820QM. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3820QM in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-3820QM has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1225 V2 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-3820QM.

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 i7-3820QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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