Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 vs Intel Core 7 150U

Compare Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 4 core CPU vs Intel Core (Series 1) 10 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

2675 points

2898 points

8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4187 points

4205 points

0.43% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2229 points

2534 points

13% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2142 points

2452 points

14% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

65.17 points

84.75 points

30% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3756 points

7276 points

93% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1192 points

2112 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

150% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

88% significantly higher clock speed

1.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

5.4 GHz

42% slightly higher turbo speed

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

96 GiB

200% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

598th of 1,089

554th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Core (Series 1)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May

2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR5-5200

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E3-1231 v3 vs Core 7 150U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1231 v3 is faster than the Core 7 150U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 7 150U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 7 150U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Xeon E3-1231 v3 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1231 v3. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1231 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core 7 150U. Despite this, the Core 7 150U has a slightly higher turbo speed.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1231 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.