Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2 vs Intel Core i7-3940XM

Xeon E3-1230 V2 vs Core i7-3940XM comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-3940XM is faster than the Xeon E3-1230 V2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1230 V2 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1230 V2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3940XM. The info from our database shows that the Xeon E3-1230 V2 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-3940XM. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1230 V2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.