Intel Core i7-3960X 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

3693 points

3% slightly better overall score

3566 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4998 points

5948 points

19% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3261 points

13% slightly better multitasking score

2868 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3155 points

14% slightly better heavy workload score

2754 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

69.62 points

88.58 points

27% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3209 points

4634 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

661 points

1433 points

116% 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

3.3 GHz

3.79 GHz

14% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

4.2 GHz

7% 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

64 GiB

Identical

64 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

464th 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 i7-3960X vs Xeon E3-1270 v6 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-3960X is faster than the Xeon E3-1270 v6. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1270 v6 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-3960X 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. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1270 v6 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3960X. Also, the Xeon E3-1270 v6 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1270 v6 outputs less heat than Core i7-3960X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-3960X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.