Intel Core i7-4790 vs Intel Xeon E3-1281 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 E3-1281 v3

Price

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$ 98.75

$ 447.50 significantly less expensive

$ 546.25

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2865 points

3044 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4473 points

5018 points

12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2388 points

2460 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2298 points

2361 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

63.87 points

76.91 points

20% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3751 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

3467 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1174 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

953 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3891 points

4098 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1241 points

1291 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.60 GHz

3.7 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

4.1 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

84 W

82 W

2% 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

558th of 1,089

534th 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

2014 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 i7-4790 vs Xeon E3-1281 v3 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E3-1281 v3 performs better 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1281 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4790. Also, the Xeon E3-1281 v3 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1281 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.