Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 vs Intel Core i7-3940XM

Compare Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 4 core CPU vs Intel Core X-series 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-3940XM

Price

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$ 49.38

$ 294.66 significantly less expensive

$ 344.04

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2675 points

9% slightly better overall score

2439 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4187 points

6% slightly better gaming score

3946 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2229 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

1992 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2142 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

1913 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

65.17 points

33% slightly higher Blender score

48.88 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3858 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2994 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1168 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

793 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3756 points

84% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2039 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1192 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

644 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

3.20 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

3.9 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

80 W

55 W

45% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

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

598th of 1,089

638th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May

2012 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E3-1231 v3 vs Core i7-3940XM specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1231 v3 beats the Core i7-3940XM in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-3940XM 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1231 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-3940XM. Despite this, the Core i7-3940XM has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-3940XM outputs less heat than Xeon E3-1231 v3 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 E3-1231 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.