Intel Xeon E3-1241 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

2688 points

2898 points

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4287 points

1% slightly better gaming score

4205 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2219 points

2534 points

14% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2132 points

2452 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

48.98 points

84.75 points

73% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3893 points

7276 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1220 points

2112 points

73% 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

3.5 GHz

94% significantly higher clock speed

1.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

5.4 GHz

38% 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

592nd 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 E3-1241 v3 vs Core 7 150U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core 7 150U performs better than the Xeon E3-1241 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1241 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core 7 150U has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Xeon E3-1241 v3 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1241 v3. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1241 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to 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 E3-1241 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.