Intel Core i7-4790K vs Intel Xeon E5-2637 v3

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2637 v3

Price

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$ 283.12

$ 229.95

$ 53.17 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3124 points

4611 points

47% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5019 points

5571 points

10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2564 points

4299 points

67% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2462 points

4207 points

70% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4415 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

4013 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1357 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

871 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4402 points

4512 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1403 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1142 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4 GHz

14% slightly higher clock speed

3.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

18% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

88 W

53% significantly lower TDP

135 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

768 GiB

2299% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

520th of 1,089

379th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-4790K vs Xeon E5-2637 v3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2637 v3 beats the Core i7-4790K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-4790K 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4790K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2637 v3. Also, the Core i7-4790K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-4790K CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2637 v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-4790K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.