Intel Core i7-4930MX vs Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2

Compare Intel Core X-series 4 core CPU vs Intel 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2

Price

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$ 299.01

$ 189.95

$ 109.06 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2463 points

2544 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4049 points

4070 points

0.52% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2003 points

2091 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1926 points

2009 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

50.02 points

25% slightly higher Blender score

39.80 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

3.20 GHz

3.30 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

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

636th of 1,089

618th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-4930MX vs Xeon E3-1230 V2 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1230 V2 is faster than the Core i7-4930MX. Despite this, the Core i7-4930MX 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1230 V2 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4930MX. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches and L3 cache.

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 i7-4930MX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.