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

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

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1220 v3 is faster than the Core i7-950. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-950 in all gaming tests too.

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.