Intel Core i7-8665U vs Intel Xeon E3-1230

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i7 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 E3-1230

Price

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$ 1540.00

$ 265.87

$ 1274.13 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2271 points

4% slightly better overall score

2180 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3777 points

10% slightly better gaming score

3414 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1836 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

1814 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1758 points

0.98% slightly better heavy workload score

1741 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

45.82 points

54% significantly higher Blender score

29.69 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2425 points

2572 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

765 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

671 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

1.9 GHz

3.2 GHz

68% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz

33% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 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

25% slightly more pcie lanes

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

686th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7

Xeon E3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 May

2011 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-8665U vs Xeon E3-1230 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-8665U performs better than the Xeon E3-1230. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1230 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1230 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to 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 E3-1230 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 i7-8665U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.