Intel Xeon E3-1220 vs Intel Core i7-4712MQ

Compare Intel Xeon E3 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 i7-4712MQ

Price

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$ 115.00

$ 653.00 significantly less expensive

$ 768.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1881 points

7% slightly better overall score

1744 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3441 points

19% slightly better gaming score

2886 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1439 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

1409 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1379 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

1352 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

27.68 points

30.27 points

9% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2143 points

2448 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

649 points

953 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1577 points

2892 points

83% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

532 points

948 points

78% 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

3.1 GHz

35% slightly higher clock speed

2.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

3% slightly higher turbo speed

3.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

80 W

37 W

116% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

25% slightly more pcie lanes

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

746th of 1,089

767th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 Family

4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 May

2014 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

Xeon E3-1220 vs Core i7-4712MQ specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1220 beats the Core i7-4712MQ in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4712MQ in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-4712MQ has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1220 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4712MQ. Also, the Xeon E3-1220 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4712MQ outputs less heat than Xeon E3-1220 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. For instance, the Xeon E3-1220 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.