Intel Core i7-4900MQ vs Intel Xeon E3-1220 v5

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v5 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E3-1220 v5

Price

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$ 200.00

$ 129.95 significantly less expensive

$ 329.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2307 points

2407 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3862 points

4431 points

14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1859 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

1840 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1784 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

1766 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

54.97 points

15% slightly higher Blender score

47.62 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2842 points

3379 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

933 points

1204 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3402 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

3325 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1123 points

1198 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.80 GHz

3.00 GHz

7% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

47 W

70% significantly 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

64 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

Identical

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

659th of 1,089

642nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7

Xeon E3 v5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May

2015 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR4-1866

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-4900MQ vs Xeon E3-1220 v5 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-4900MQ performs better than the Xeon E3-1220 v5. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1220 v5 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-4900MQ has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1220 v5 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4900MQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4900MQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-4900MQ CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1220 v5 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache and L3 cache.

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 i7-4900MQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.