Intel Xeon E3-1220 v6 vs Intel Core i7-3630QM. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  Intel Xeon E3 v6 Intel Core i 3000M
• Family
  Intel Xeon E3 Intel Core i7
• Generation
  6 3
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  3 GHz 2.4 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  4 4
• CPU Threads
  4 8
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.5 GHz 3.4 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  3.3 GHz No turbo

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• DirectX Version
  - 11.0
• Execution units
  - 16
• Generation
  - 7
• GPU Frequency
  - 650 MHz
• GPU name
  no iGPU Intel HD Graphics 4000
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo 1150 MHz
• Max. displays
  - 3
• Release date
  - Q1/2011
• Shader
  - 128
• Technology
  - 22 nm

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• JPEG
  No Decode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i7-3630QM and Intel Xeon E3-1220 v6. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes No
• Max. Memory
  - 32 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR4-2400 DDR3-1333DDR3-1600DDR3L-1333 SO-DIMMDDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM
• PCIe lanes
  16 16
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon E3-1220 v6 and Intel Core i7-3630QM Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Maximum Operating Temperature
  - 105 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  72 W 45 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon E3-1220 v6 and Intel Core i7-3630QM, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Kaby Lake S Ivy Bridge H
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
• L3-Cache
  8 MB 6 MB
• Release date
  Q1/2017 Q3/2012
• Socket
  LGA 1151 PGA 988
• Technology
  14 nm 22 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d