Intel Core i7-4770K vs Intel Xeon E3-1230 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 E3-1230 v3

Price

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$ 153.83

$ 124.67 significantly less expensive

$ 278.50

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2925 points

14% slightly better overall score

2545 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4768 points

21% slightly better gaming score

3940 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2381 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

2128 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2286 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

2046 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2543 points

3667 points

44% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

66.02 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

61.88 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3979 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

3681 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1227 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1126 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4080 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

3699 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1280 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1160 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.50 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 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

617th 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 E3-1230 v3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4770K beats the Xeon E3-1230 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1230 v3 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 Core i7-4770K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E3-1230 v3. Also, the Core i7-4770K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1230 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.

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.