Intel Core i7-4870HQ vs Intel Xeon E3-1270 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

2351 points
2678 points
13% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4134 points
4361 points
5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1817 points
2181 points
20% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1720 points
2092 points
21% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

57.01 points
12% slightly higher Blender score
50.58 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2877 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2287 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

870 points
31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
663 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3685 points
57% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
2338 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1136 points
69% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
672 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
3.50 GHz
40% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

671st of 1,122
619th of 1,122

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 E3-1270 V2 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1270 V2 is faster than the Core i7-4870HQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4870HQ 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 Xeon E3-1270 V2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4870HQ.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-4870HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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