Intel Core i7-870 vs Intel Xeon E3-1220

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 E3-1220

Price

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$ 163.04

$ 115.00

$ 48.04 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1923 points

2% slightly better overall score

1881 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3090 points

3441 points

11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1576 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

1439 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1513 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

1379 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.74 points

36% slightly higher Blender score

27.68 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1563 points

2143 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

485 points

649 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1550 points

1577 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

475 points

532 points

11% 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

2.93 GHz

3.1 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

80 W

18% slightly lower TDP

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

732nd of 1,089

746th 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 i7-870 vs Xeon E3-1220 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-870 performs better than the Xeon E3-1220. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1220 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-870 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1220 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-870. Despite this, the Core i7-870 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1220 outputs less heat than Core i7-870 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-870 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.