Intel Core i7-4790S vs Intel Xeon E3-1231 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2743 points

2% slightly better overall score

2675 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4529 points

8% slightly better gaming score

4187 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2219 points

2229 points

0.45% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2130 points

2142 points

0.56% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

60.35 points

65.17 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3586 points

3858 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1175 points

0.60% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1168 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3775 points

0.51% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

3756 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1204 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1192 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

3.2 GHz

3.4 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

23% slightly lower TDP

80 W

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

580th of 1,089

598th 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 i7-4790S vs Xeon E3-1231 v3 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4790S is faster than the Xeon E3-1231 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1231 v3 in all gaming tests too.

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 Xeon E3-1231 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4790S. Despite this, the Core i7-4790S has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-4790S CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1231 v3 CPU because of its slightly 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 i7-4790S has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.