Intel Core i7-975 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1889 points

2007 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3014 points

3728 points

23% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1556 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

1528 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1494 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

1468 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2411 points

2942 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

596 points

1026 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1859 points

3227 points

73% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

538 points

1124 points

108% 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

3.33 GHz

7% slightly higher clock speed

3.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 GHz

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

742nd 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 i7-975 vs Xeon E3-1220 v3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-975 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 i7-975 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-975 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1220 v3. Also, the Core i7-975 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1220 v3 outputs less heat than Core i7-975 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-975 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.