Intel Core i7-960 vs Intel Xeon E3-1225 V2

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1995 points

1% slightly better overall score

1956 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3216 points

3586 points

11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1629 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

1496 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1563 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

1436 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

32.27 points

33.16 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1672 points

1894 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

492 points

631 points

28% 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

3.2 GHz

0.22% slightly higher clock speed

3.19 GHz

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

737th of 1,115

743rd of 1,115

Family

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-960 vs Xeon E3-1225 V2 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-960 is faster than the Xeon E3-1225 V2. 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 i7-960 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-960 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1225 V2.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-960 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.