Intel Xeon E3-1226 v3 vs Intel Core i7-4900MQ

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 i7-4900MQ

Price

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$ 99.00

$ 101.00 significantly less expensive

$ 200.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2307 points

Identical

2307 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4249 points

10% slightly better gaming score

3862 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1762 points

1859 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1691 points

1784 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

45.99 points

54.97 points

19% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2832 points

2842 points

0.35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

871 points

933 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3291 points

3402 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1157 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1123 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

17% slightly higher clock speed

2.80 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

3.8 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

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

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32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

658th of 1,089

659th 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 i7-4900MQ specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1226 v3 is faster than the Core i7-4900MQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4900MQ in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-4900MQ has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1226 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4900MQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4900MQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4900MQ 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Xeon E3-1226 v3 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.