Intel Core i7-8665U vs Intel Xeon E3-1226 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 E3-1226 v3

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$ 1540.00

$ 99.00

$ 1441.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2271 points

2307 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3777 points

4249 points

12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1836 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

1762 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1758 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

1691 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

45.82 points

45.99 points

0.36% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2425 points

2832 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

765 points

871 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (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

1.9 GHz

3.3 GHz

73% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz

29% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

459% significantly lower TDP

84 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

64 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

669th of 1,089

658th 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

2019 May

2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-8665U vs Xeon E3-1226 v3 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-8665U is faster than the Xeon E3-1226 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1226 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-8665U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1226 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8665U. Despite this, the Core i7-8665U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-8665U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1226 v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-8665U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.