Intel Core i7-3930K vs Intel Xeon E5-1660

Compare Intel Core X-series 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-1660

Price

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$ 280.00

$ 334.29 significantly less expensive

$ 614.29

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3669 points

3673 points

0.11% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4984 points

2% slightly better gaming score

4854 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3245 points

3294 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3138 points

3198 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

70.18 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

65.07 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3014 points

4536 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

601 points

761 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2984 points

3040 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

616 points

618 points

0.32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

3.3 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

3.9 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

Identical

130 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

23 GiB

256 GiB

1013% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

466th of 1,089

465th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 November

2012 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-3930K vs Xeon E5-1660 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1660 beats the Core i7-3930K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3930K in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-1660 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-3930K. Also, the Xeon E5-1660 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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.