Intel Xeon W3580 vs Intel Core i7-3630QM

Compare Intel Xeon 4 core CPU vs Intel Core 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 375.00
$ 229.00
$ 146.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1617 points
1913 points
18% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2977 points
0.03% slightly better gaming score
2976 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1234 points
1587 points
28% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1184 points
1523 points
28% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2417 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1885 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

607 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
561 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

3.33 GHz
38% slightly higher clock speed
2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz
5% slightly higher turbo speed
3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W
45 W
188% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

3
49% significantly more memory channels
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

24 GiB
32 GiB
33% slightly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

785th of 1,089
734th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 August
2012 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
No

Xeon W3580 vs Core i7-3630QM comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3630QM beats the Xeon W3580 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon W3580 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon W3580 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3630QM. Also, the Xeon W3580 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-3630QM outputs less heat than Xeon W3580 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 W3580 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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