Intel Core i7-4770 vs Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 76.51
$ 79.48 significantly less expensive
$ 155.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2793 points
5073 points
81% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4464 points
5423 points
21% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2300 points
4932 points
114% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2209 points
4878 points
120% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

60.61 points
106.45 points
75% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3652 points
4204 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1143 points
96% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
582 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3812 points
4225 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1210 points
104% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
593 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
10
150% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
20
150% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.40 GHz
13% slightly higher clock speed
3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
8% slightly higher turbo speed
3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

84 W
54% significantly lower TDP
130 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
40
150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
4
100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
768 GiB
2299% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

571st of 1,089
342nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7
Xeon E5 v2 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May
2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i7-4770 vs Xeon E5-2690 v2 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2690 v2 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2690 v2 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-4770. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v2 has 10 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-4770. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4770. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4770 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2690 v2. Also, the Core i7-4770 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-4770 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2690 v2 CPU because of its significantly 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.

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