Intel Xeon E3-1281 v3 vs Intel Core i7 X 990

Xeon E3-1281 v3 vs Core i7 X 990 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7 X 990 is faster than the Xeon E3-1281 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1281 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7 X 990 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Xeon E3-1281 v3 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1281 v3. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1281 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7 X 990.

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 E3-1281 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.