Intel Xeon E3-1230 vs Intel Core 7 150U

Xeon E3-1230 vs Core 7 150U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 7 150U is faster than the Xeon E3-1230. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1230 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 7 150U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Xeon E3-1230 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1230. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1230 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core 7 150U. Despite this, the Core 7 150U has a significantly higher turbo speed.

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