Intel Xeon E3-1230 vs Intel Core i7-4900MQ

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?

Benchmark Score
Other Benchmarks
Specifications
Comments (0)
Popular Comparisons

CPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare processors

Intel Core i7-4900MQ

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 265.87

$ 200.00

$ 65.87 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2180 points

2307 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3414 points

3862 points

13% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1814 points

1859 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1741 points

1784 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

Free CPU Benchmark

Want to compare your processor against the Xeon E3-1230 and the Core i7-4900MQ? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Download CPU Benchmark

Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

29.69 points

54.97 points

85% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2572 points

2842 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

671 points

933 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1979 points

3402 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

585 points

1123 points

91% 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

14% slightly higher clock speed

2.80 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

3.8 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

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

659th 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 i7-4900MQ comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1230 beats the Core i7-4900MQ in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-4900MQ has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1230 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4900MQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4900MQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4900MQ 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.

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.