Intel Core i7-4770K vs Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3

Price

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$ 153.83

$ 69.28 significantly less expensive

$ 223.11

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2925 points

45% significantly better overall score

2007 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4768 points

27% slightly better gaming score

3728 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2381 points

55% significantly better multitasking score

1528 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2286 points

55% significantly better heavy workload score

1468 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

66.02 points

30% slightly higher Blender score

50.68 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3979 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2942 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1227 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1026 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4080 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

3227 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1280 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1124 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.50 GHz

12% slightly higher clock speed

3.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

84 W

80 W

5% slightly 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

32 GiB

Identical

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

548th of 1,089

713th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-4770K vs Xeon E3-1220 v3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4770K is faster than the Xeon E3-1220 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1220 v3 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-4770K has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4770K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E3-1220 v3. Also, the Core i7-4770K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1220 v3 outputs less heat than Core i7-4770K thanks to a slightly 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 i7-4770K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.