Intel Core i7-4870HQ vs Intel Xeon E3-1230 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

2285 points
2544 points
11% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3638 points
4070 points
11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1884 points
2091 points
10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1806 points
2009 points
11% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

57.01 points
43% significantly higher Blender score
39.80 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

2.5 GHz
3.30 GHz
32% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

666th of 1,089
618th 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 August
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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 i7-4870HQ vs Xeon E3-1230 V2 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4870HQ is faster than the Xeon E3-1230 V2. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1230 V2 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1230 V2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4870HQ.

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 i7-4870HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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