Intel Xeon E3-1275 v3 vs Intel Core i7 X 980

Xeon E3-1275 v3 vs Core i7 X 980 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7 X 980 is faster than the Xeon E3-1275 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1275 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 E3-1275 v3 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1275 v3. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1275 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7 X 980.

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 E3-1275 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.