Intel Core i7-8705G vs Intel Xeon E5-1620 v3

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2382 points
2681 points
12% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3668 points
4224 points
15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1988 points
2223 points
11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1908 points
2134 points
11% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

61.13 points
61.49 points
0.59% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3878 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
3546 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1153 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1027 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3988 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
3886 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1284 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1093 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz
3.5 GHz
12% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz
13% slightly higher turbo speed
3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
115% significantly lower TDP
140 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

8
40
400% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
4
100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB
768 GiB
1100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

646th of 1,089
595th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7
Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 February
2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400
DDR4-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i7-8705G vs Xeon E5-1620 v3 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-1620 v3 is faster than the Core i7-8705G. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8705G in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-1620 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8705G. Despite this, the Core i7-8705G has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-8705G CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1620 v3 CPU because of its significantly 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 i7-8705G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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