Intel Core i7-8550U vs Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3

Price

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$ 969.00

$ 49.38

$ 919.62 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2085 points

2675 points

28% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3523 points

4187 points

18% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1671 points

2229 points

33% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1597 points

2142 points

34% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

43.52 points

65.17 points

49% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2622 points

3858 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

878 points

1168 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.8 GHz

3.4 GHz

88% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

433% significantly lower TDP

80 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

33% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

Identical

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

706th of 1,089

598th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August

2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-8550U vs Xeon E3-1231 v3 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1231 v3 is faster than the Core i7-8550U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8550U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1231 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8550U. Despite this, the Core i7-8550U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-8550U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1231 v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-8550U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.