Intel Xeon E3-1270 V2 vs Intel Core i7-3940XM

Xeon E3-1270 V2 vs Core i7-3940XM benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-3940XM performs better than the Xeon E3-1270 V2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1270 V2 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1270 V2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3940XM. In terms of cache, the Xeon E3-1270 V2 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-3940XM. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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 E3-1270 V2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.