Intel Xeon E3-1230 vs Intel Core i7-4930MX

Xeon E3-1230 vs Core i7-4930MX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4930MX beats the Xeon E3-1230 in overall performance. 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-4930MX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1230. Also, the Core i7-4930MX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4930MX outputs less heat than Xeon E3-1230 thanks to a slightly 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.