Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3 vs Intel Core i7-4910MQ

Compare Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 4 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-4910MQ

Price

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$ 223.11

$ 126.77 significantly less expensive

$ 349.88

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2007 points

0.45% slightly better overall score

1998 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3728 points

14% slightly better gaming score

3258 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1528 points

1623 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1468 points

1556 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

50.68 points

51.36 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2942 points

2980 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1026 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

887 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3227 points

3398 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1124 points

1126 points

0.18% 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

3.1 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

2.90 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

3.9 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

80 W

47 W

70% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

Identical

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

713th of 1,089

717th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 v3 Family

4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May

2014 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E3-1220 v3 vs Core i7-4910MQ comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4910MQ beats the Xeon E3-1220 v3 in overall performance. 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 i7-4910MQ has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1220 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4910MQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4910MQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4910MQ outputs less heat than Xeon E3-1220 v3 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. For instance, the Xeon E3-1220 v3 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.