Intel Xeon E3-1230 vs Intel Core i7-4700MQ

Compare Intel Xeon E3 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2180 points

2226 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3414 points

3615 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1814 points

0.06% slightly better multitasking score

1813 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1741 points

0.35% slightly better heavy workload score

1735 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

29.69 points

46.75 points

57% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2572 points

2898 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

671 points

961 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1979 points

3110 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

585 points

1019 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

33% slightly higher clock speed

2.40 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

80 W

47 W

70% 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

686th of 1,089

676th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 Family

4th Generation Core i7

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 E3-1230 vs Core i7-4700MQ comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4700MQ is faster than the Xeon E3-1230. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1230 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. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1230 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4700MQ. Also, the Xeon E3-1230 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4700MQ outputs less heat than Xeon E3-1230 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. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1230 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.