Intel Xeon E3-1505M v6 vs Intel Core i7 X 990

Compare Intel Xeon E3 v6 Family 4 core CPU vs Intel 6 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

3071 points

3089 points

0.59% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4949 points

16% slightly better gaming score

4251 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2514 points

2707 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2413 points

2617 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

58.48 points

11% slightly higher Blender score

52.64 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz

3.46 GHz

15% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

12 MiB

1100% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

529th of 1,089

527th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 v6 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E3-1505M v6 vs Core i7 X 990 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7 X 990 performs better than the Xeon E3-1505M v6. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1505M v6 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7 X 990 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Xeon E3-1505M v6 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1505M v6. Our comparison shows that the Core i7 X 990 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1505M v6. The info from our database shows that the Core i7 X 990 has more L2 cache than the Xeon E3-1505M v6

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 E3-1505M v6 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.