Intel Core i7-950 vs Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3

Compare Intel Core 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 E3-1220 v3

Price

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$ 31.00

$ 192.11 significantly less expensive

$ 223.11

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1990 points

2007 points

0.85% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3211 points

3728 points

16% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1624 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

1528 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1559 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

1468 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

30.71 points

50.68 points

65% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1595 points

2942 points

84% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

460 points

1026 points

123% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1494 points

3227 points

115% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

457 points

1124 points

145% significantly 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

3.06 GHz

3.1 GHz

1% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.33 GHz

3.5 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

80 W

62% significantly 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

721st of 1,089

713th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 May

2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-950 vs Xeon E3-1220 v3 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-950 is faster than the Xeon E3-1220 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1220 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-950 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1220 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-950. Also, the Xeon E3-1220 v3 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1220 v3 outputs less heat than Core i7-950 thanks to a 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 i7-950 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.