Intel Xeon E5-2609 v3 vs Intel Core i7-4930MX

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 6 core CPU vs Intel Core X-series 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-4930MX

Price

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$ 198.95

$ 100.06 significantly less expensive

$ 299.01

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1767 points

2463 points

39% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2784 points

4049 points

45% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1446 points

2003 points

38% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1388 points

1926 points

38% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2526 points

3101 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

461 points

873 points

89% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2743 points

3648 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

617 points

1251 points

102% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.9 GHz

3.20 GHz

68% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

80 W

57 W

40% slightly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

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

763rd of 1,089

636th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2609 v3 vs Core i7-4930MX comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-4930MX performs better than the Xeon E5-2609 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2609 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2609 v3 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-4930MX that has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-4930MX has more threads than the Xeon E5-2609 v3. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4930MX has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2609 v3. The Core i7-4930MX outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2609 v3 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. For instance, the Xeon E5-2609 v3 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.