Intel Core i7-950 vs Intel Xeon E3-1225 V2

Core i7-950 vs Xeon E3-1225 V2 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-950 beats the Xeon E3-1225 V2 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1225 V2 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-950 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1225 V2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-950.

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.