Intel Core i7-3820QM vs Intel Xeon E3-1230

Core i7-3820QM vs Xeon E3-1230 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1230 beats the Core i7-3820QM in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-3820QM has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1230 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-3820QM. Despite this, the Core i7-3820QM has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-3820QM CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1230 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 i7-3820QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.