Intel Core i7-4790 vs Intel Xeon E3-1270 v3

Core i7-4790 vs Xeon E3-1270 v3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1270 v3 beats the Core i7-4790 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-4790 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-4790 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1270 v3. Also, the Core i7-4790 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1270 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.