Intel Core i7-960 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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$ 150.00

$ 73.11 significantly less expensive

$ 223.11

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1995 points

2007 points

0.60% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3216 points

3728 points

15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1629 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

1528 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1563 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

1468 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

32.27 points

50.68 points

57% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1700 points

2942 points

73% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

503 points

1026 points

103% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1672 points

3227 points

93% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

492 points

1124 points

128% 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

3.2 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

3.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.46 GHz

3.5 GHz

1% 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

719th 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 November

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 i7-960 vs Xeon E3-1220 v3 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-960 performs better than the Xeon E3-1220 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1220 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-960 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-960 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1220 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1220 v3 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1220 v3 outputs less heat than Core i7-960 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-960 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.