Intel Core i7-4790 vs Intel Xeon E3-1280 v3

Core i7-4790 vs Xeon E3-1280 v3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1280 v3 is faster than the Core i7-4790. Despite this, the Core i7-4790 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores 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 E3-1280 v3. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Xeon E3-1280 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.

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 i7-4790 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.