Intel Xeon E5-1620 v3 vs Intel Core i7-4800MQ

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 4 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 119.95
$ 30.00 slightly less expensive
$ 149.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2681 points
11% slightly better overall score
2395 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4224 points
5% slightly better gaming score
3995 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2223 points
15% slightly better multitasking score
1928 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2134 points
15% slightly better heavy workload score
1851 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

61.49 points
25% slightly higher Blender score
48.93 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3546 points
38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2555 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1027 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
914 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3886 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
3174 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1093 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1063 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
29% slightly higher clock speed
2.70 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz
3.7 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W
47 W
197% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

40
150% significantly more pcie lanes
16

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

768 GiB
2299% significantly more supported memory
32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

595th of 1,089
644th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family
4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August
2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1333
DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
No

Xeon E5-1620 v3 vs Core i7-4800MQ specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-1620 v3 performs better than the Core i7-4800MQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4800MQ in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-1620 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4800MQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4800MQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4800MQ outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1620 v3 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 E5-1620 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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