Intel Core i7-4790 vs Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3

Core i7-4790 vs Xeon E3-1220 v3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4790 beats the Xeon E3-1220 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1220 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-4790 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4790 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1220 v3. Also, the Core i7-4790 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1220 v3 outputs less heat than Core i7-4790 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 i7-4790 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.