Intel Core i7-930 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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$ 307.29

$ 42.66 slightly less expensive

$ 349.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1941 points

1% slightly better overall score

1912 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3145 points

3480 points

10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1583 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

1470 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1519 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

1411 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.18 points

11% slightly higher Blender score

25.19 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1490 points

2142 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

432 points

647 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1449 points

1641 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

425 points

561 points

32% 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

3.06 GHz

3.4 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

95 W

36% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

24 GiB

32 GiB

33% slightly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

729th 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

2010 February

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 i7-930 vs Xeon E3-1225 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-930 performs better than the Xeon E3-1225. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1225 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-930 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1225 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-930. Also, the Xeon E3-1225 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1225 outputs less heat than Core i7-930 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 i7-930 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.