Intel Core i7-4770 vs Intel Xeon E3-1280 v3

Core i7-4770 vs Xeon E3-1280 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1280 v3 beats the Core i7-4770 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4770 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1280 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4770. Also, the Xeon E3-1280 v3 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1280 v3 outputs less heat than Core i7-4770 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-4770 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.