Intel Core i7-7820HQ vs Intel Xeon E3-1270 V2

Compare Intel 7th 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

2218 points
2678 points
20% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3567 points
4361 points
22% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1819 points
2181 points
19% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1749 points
2092 points
19% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

63.31 points
25% slightly higher Blender score
50.58 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3447 points
50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2287 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1174 points
77% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
663 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3581 points
53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
2338 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1188 points
76% 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

2.9 GHz
3.50 GHz
20% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

678th of 1,089
597th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i7
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-7820HQ vs Xeon E3-1270 V2 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-7820HQ beats the Xeon E3-1270 V2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1270 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 E3-1270 V2 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-7820HQ.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-7820HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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