Intel Core i7-3940XM vs Intel Xeon E3-1245 V2

Core i7-3940XM vs Xeon E3-1245 V2 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1245 V2 beats the Core i7-3940XM in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3940XM in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1245 V2 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-3940XM. In terms of cache, the Xeon E3-1245 V2 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-3940XM. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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 i7-3940XM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.