Intel Core i7-860 vs Intel Xeon E3-1225

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

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Intel Xeon E3-1225

Price

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$ 54.25

$ 295.70 significantly less expensive

$ 349.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1632 points

1912 points

17% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2607 points

3480 points

33% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1342 points

1470 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1289 points

1411 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

30.74 points

22% slightly higher Blender score

25.19 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1475 points

2142 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

441 points

647 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1475 points

1641 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

451 points

561 points

24% 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

2.8 GHz

3.1 GHz

10% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.46 GHz

1% slightly higher turbo speed

3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

Identical

95 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

16 GiB

32 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

783rd of 1,089

735th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon E3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 August

2011 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-860 vs Xeon E3-1225 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1225 is faster than the Core i7-860. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-860 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-860 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1225 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-860. Despite this, the Core i7-860 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i7-860 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.