Intel Core i7-3960X vs Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3

Compare Intel Core X-series 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3

Price

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$ 250.00

$ 149.95

$ 100.05 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3693 points

15% slightly better overall score

3203 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4998 points

17% slightly better gaming score

4260 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3261 points

13% slightly better multitasking score

2869 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3155 points

12% slightly better heavy workload score

2793 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

69.62 points

75.06 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3363 points

3929 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

665 points

901 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3209 points

4121 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

661 points

947 points

43% significantly 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

3.3 GHz

37% slightly higher clock speed

2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

21% slightly higher turbo speed

3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

85 W

52% significantly lower TDP

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

64 GiB

768 GiB

1100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

464th of 1,089

510th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 November

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-3960X vs Xeon E5-2620 v3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-3960X is faster than the Xeon E5-2620 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2620 v3 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 Core i7-3960X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2620 v3. Also, the Core i7-3960X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2620 v3 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.

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 i7-3960X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.