Intel Xeon E3-1270 v3 vs Intel Core i7 X 980

Xeon E3-1270 v3 vs Core i7 X 980 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7 X 980 beats the Xeon E3-1270 v3 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1270 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7 X 980 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Xeon E3-1270 v3 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1270 v3. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1270 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7 X 980.

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 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.