Intel Xeon E3-1225 vs Intel Core i7-4930MX

Compare Intel Xeon E3 Family 4 core CPU vs Intel Core X-series 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-4930MX

Price

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$ 349.95

$ 299.01

$ 50.94 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1912 points

2463 points

28% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3480 points

4049 points

16% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1470 points

2003 points

36% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1411 points

1926 points

36% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

25.19 points

50.02 points

98% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2142 points

3101 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

647 points

873 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1641 points

3648 points

122% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

561 points

1251 points

122% 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

3.20 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

3.9 GHz

14% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

57 W

66% 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

735th of 1,089

636th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 Family

Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 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

Xeon E3-1225 vs Core i7-4930MX benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4930MX is faster than the Xeon E3-1225. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1225 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-4930MX has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4930MX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E3-1225. Also, the Core i7-4930MX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4930MX outputs less heat than Xeon E3-1225 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 E3-1225 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.