Intel Core i7-4790 vs Intel Xeon E3-1535M v6

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v6 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2865 points

2904 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4473 points

4700 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2388 points

0.51% slightly better multitasking score

2376 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2298 points

0.83% slightly better heavy workload score

2279 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

63.87 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

58.91 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3751 points

4067 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1174 points

1275 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3891 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

3836 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1241 points

1254 points

1% 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

16% slightly higher clock speed

3.10 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

4.2 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

84 W

45 W

86% significantly 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

64 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

Identical

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

558th of 1,089

551st of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7

Xeon E3 v6 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May

2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR4-2400

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-4790 vs Xeon E3-1535M v6 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1535M v6 is faster than the Core i7-4790. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4790 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4790 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1535M v6. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1535M v6 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1535M v6 outputs less heat than Core i7-4790 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache and L3 cache.

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.