Intel Xeon E5-2640 vs Intel Core i7-1185G7

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 6 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i7 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-1185G7

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$ 65.00

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$ 1277.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2849 points

3014 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3820 points

5168 points

35% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2537 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

2395 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2462 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

2286 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

47.31 points

60.09 points

26% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3360 points

5178 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

558 points

1697 points

204% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2265 points

5187 points

129% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

450 points

1724 points

283% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3 GHz

4.8 GHz

60% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

384 GiB

499% significantly more supported memory

64 GiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

15 MiB

25% slightly more L3 cache

12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

560th of 1,089

538th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

11th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

2020 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2640 vs Core i7-1185G7 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2640 performs better than the Core i7-1185G7. Despite this, the Core i7-1185G7 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2640 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-1185G7. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2640 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-1185G7. It also has more threads than the Core i7-1185G7. The Core i7-1185G7 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2640 thanks to a significantly 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. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2640 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.