Intel Core i7-3930K vs Intel Xeon E3-1270 v6

Compare Intel Core X-series 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v6 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3669 points

2% slightly better overall score

3566 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4984 points

5948 points

19% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3245 points

13% slightly better multitasking score

2868 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3138 points

13% slightly better heavy workload score

2754 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

70.18 points

88.58 points

26% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2984 points

4634 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

616 points

1433 points

132% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

3.79 GHz

18% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

4.2 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

72 W

80% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

23 GiB

64 GiB

178% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

466th of 1,089

478th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series

Xeon E3 v6 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 November

2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR4-2400

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-3930K vs Xeon E3-1270 v6 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3930K beats the Xeon E3-1270 v6 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1270 v6 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-3930K has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Xeon E3-1270 v6 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1270 v6. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1270 v6 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-3930K. Also, the Xeon E3-1270 v6 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1270 v6 outputs less heat than Core i7-3930K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-3930K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.