Intel Core i7-4790S vs Intel Xeon E3-1240 V2

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs Intel 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
7% slightly better overall score
2562 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4529 points
11% slightly better gaming score
4064 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2219 points
4% slightly better multitasking score
2114 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2130 points
4% slightly better heavy workload score
2029 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

60.35 points
51% significantly higher Blender score
39.73 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz
3.40 GHz
6% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

580th of 1,089
613th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-4790S vs Xeon E3-1240 V2 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4790S is faster than the Xeon E3-1240 V2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1240 V2 in all gaming tests too.

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 Xeon E3-1240 V2 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4790S.

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.

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