Intel Xeon E3-1226 v3 vs Intel Core i7-4800MQ

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 i7-4800MQ

Price

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$ 99.00

$ 50.95 significantly less expensive

$ 149.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2307 points

2395 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4249 points

6% slightly better gaming score

3995 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1762 points

1928 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1691 points

1851 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

45.99 points

48.93 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2832 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2555 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

871 points

914 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3291 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

3174 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1157 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1063 points

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

3.3 GHz

22% slightly higher clock speed

2.70 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

Identical

3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

84 W

47 W

78% 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

658th of 1,089

644th 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

2014 May

2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E3-1226 v3 vs Core i7-4800MQ comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4800MQ beats the Xeon E3-1226 v3 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1226 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-4800MQ has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1226 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4800MQ. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Core i7-4800MQ outputs less heat than Xeon E3-1226 v3 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 E3-1226 v3 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.