Intel Core i7-4770K vs Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs Intel 4 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

$ 153.83
$ 36.12 slightly less expensive
$ 189.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2925 points
14% slightly better overall score
2544 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4768 points
17% slightly better gaming score
4070 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2381 points
13% slightly better multitasking score
2091 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2286 points
13% slightly better heavy workload score
2009 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

66.02 points
65% significantly higher Blender score
39.80 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.50 GHz
6% slightly higher clock speed
3.30 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
Identical
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
Identical
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

548th of 1,089
618th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-4770K vs Xeon E3-1230 V2 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4770K is faster than the Xeon E3-1230 V2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1230 V2 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4770K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1230 V2. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches and L3 cache.

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

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