Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3 vs Intel Core i7-4790

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Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3 CPU1 vs CPU2 Intel Core i7-4790
Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3 Intel Core i7-4790

CPU comparison

Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3 or Intel Core i7-4790 - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results.

The Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3 has 14 cores with 28 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.00 GHz. Up to 768 GB of memory is supported in 4 memory channels. The Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3 was released in Q3/2014.

The Intel Core i7-4790 has 4 cores with 8 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 4.00 GHz. The CPU supports up to 32 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The Intel Core i7-4790 was released in Q2/2014.
Intel Xeon E5 (71) Family Intel Core i7 (293)
Intel Xeon E5 v3 (32) CPU group Intel Core i 4000 (64)
5 Generation 4
Haswell E Architecture Haswell S
Desktop / Server Segment Desktop / Server
-- Predecessor --
Intel Xeon E5-2683 v4 Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3 has 14 CPU cores and can calculate 28 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3 is 2.00 GHz (3.00 GHz) while the Intel Core i7-4790 has 4 CPU cores and 8 threads can calculate simultaneously. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i7-4790 is at 3.60 GHz (4.00 GHz).

Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3 Characteristic Intel Core i7-4790
14 Cores 4
28 Threads 8
normal Core architecture normal
Yes Hyperthreading Yes
No Overclocking ? No
2.00 GHz Frequency 3.60 GHz
3.00 GHz Turbo Frequency (1 Core) 4.00 GHz
2.50 GHz Turbo Frequency (All Cores) 3.80 GHz

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.

Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3 Characteristic Intel Core i7-4790
-- AI hardware --
-- AI specifications --

Internal Graphics

The Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3 or Intel Core i7-4790 has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

no iGPU GPU Intel HD Graphics 4600
GPU frequency 0.35 GHz
-- GPU (Turbo) 1.20 GHz
-- GPU Generation 7.5
Technology 22 nm
Max. displays 3
-- Compute units 20
-- Shader 160
No Hardware Raytracing No
No Frame Generation No
-- Max. GPU Memory 2 GB
-- DirectX Version 11.1

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

no iGPU GPU Intel HD Graphics 4600
No Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) No
No Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) No
No Codec h264 Decode / Encode
No Codec VP9 No
No Codec VP8 No
No Codec AV1 No
No Codec AVC Decode / Encode
No Codec VC-1 Decode
No Codec JPEG Decode

Memory & PCIe

The Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3 can use up to 768 GB of memory in 4 memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 68.2 GB/s. The Intel Core i7-4790 supports up to 32 GB of memory in 2 memory channels and achieves a memory bandwidth of up to 25.6 GB/s.

Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3 Characteristic Intel Core i7-4790
DDR4-2133 Memory DDR3-1600
768 GB Max. Memory 32 GB
4 (Quad Channel) Memory channels 2 (Dual Channel)
68.2 GB/s Max. Bandwidth 25.6 GB/s
Yes ECC No
-- L2 Cache --
35.00 MB L3 Cache 8.00 MB
3.0 PCIe version 3.0
40 PCIe lanes 16
39.4 GB/s PCIe Bandwidth 15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3 is 120 W, while the Intel Core i7-4790 has a TDP of 84 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently.

Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3 Characteristic Intel Core i7-4790
120 W TDP (PL1 / PBP) 84 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up --
-- TDP down --
-- Tjunction max. --

Technical details

The Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3 is manufactured in 22 nm and has 35.00 MB cache. The Intel Core i7-4790 is manufactured in 22 nm and has a 8.00 MB cache.

Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3 Characteristic Intel Core i7-4790
22 nm Technology 22 nm
Monolithic Chip design Monolithic
x86-64 (64 bit) Instruction set (ISA) x86-64 (64 bit)
SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 ISA extensions SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
LGA 2011-3 Socket LGA 1150
VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d Virtualization VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
Yes AES-NI Yes
Windows 10, Linux Operating systems Windows 10, Linux
Q3/2014 Release date Q2/2014
-- Release price 280 $
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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 4 CPU benchmarks
⌀ Multi core performance in 5 CPU benchmarks

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3 Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3
14C 28T @ 3.00 GHz
651 (67%)
Intel Core i7-4790 Intel Core i7-4790
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
974 (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3 Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3
14C 28T @ 2.50 GHz
17896 (100%)
Intel Core i7-4790 Intel Core i7-4790
4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz
4564 (26%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3 Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3
14C 28T @ 3.00 GHz
758 (77%)
Intel Core i7-4790 Intel Core i7-4790
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
981 (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3 Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3
14C 28T @ 2.50 GHz
9568 (100%)
Intel Core i7-4790 Intel Core i7-4790
4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz
3732 (39%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.
Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3 Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3
14C 28T @ 3.00 GHz
906 (74%)
Intel Core i7-4790 Intel Core i7-4790
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
1217 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.
Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3 Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3
14C 28T @ 2.50 GHz
6452 (100%)
Intel Core i7-4790 Intel Core i7-4790
4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz
4081 (63%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.
Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3 Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3
14C 28T @ 2.50 GHz
14652 (100%)
Intel Core i7-4790 Intel Core i7-4790
4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz
7229 (49%)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3 Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3
14C 28T @ 3.00 GHz
115 (79%)
Intel Core i7-4790 Intel Core i7-4790
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
145 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3 Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3
14C 28T @ 2.50 GHz
1860 (100%)
Intel Core i7-4790 Intel Core i7-4790
4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz
728 (39%)

Cinebench 2024 (Single-Core)

The Cinebench 2024 benchmark is based on the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxon's 3D program Cinema 4D. The benchmark runs are each 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.
Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3 Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3
14C 28T @ 3.00 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i7-4790 Intel Core i7-4790
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
51 (100%)

Cinebench 2024 (Multi-Core)

The Multi-Core test of the Cinebench 2024 benchmark uses all cpu cores to render using the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxons Cinema 4D. The benchmark run is 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.
Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3 Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3
14C 28T @ 3.00 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i7-4790 Intel Core i7-4790
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
231 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3 Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3
14C 28T @ 3.00 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i7-4790 Intel Core i7-4790
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
384 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3 Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3
14C 28T @ 2.50 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i7-4790 Intel Core i7-4790
4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz
1819 (100%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3 Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3
@ 0.00 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i7-4790 Intel Core i7-4790
Intel HD Graphics 4600 @ 1.20 GHz
384 (100%)

Blender 3.1 Benchmark

In the Blender Benchmark 3.1, the scenes "monster", "junkshop" and "classroom" are rendered and the time required by the system is measured. In our benchmark we test the CPU and not the graphics card. Blender 3.1 was presented as a standalone version in March 2022.
Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3 Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3
14C 28T @ 2.50 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i7-4790 Intel Core i7-4790
4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz
62 (100%)

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)

Blender is a free 3D graphics software for rendering (creating) 3D bodies, which can also be textured and animated in the software. The Blender benchmark creates predefined scenes and measures the time (s) required for the entire scene. The shorter the time required, the better. We selected bmw27 as the benchmark scene.
Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3 Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3
14C 28T @ 2.50 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i7-4790 Intel Core i7-4790
4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz
460 (100%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Single-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3 Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3
14C 28T @ 2.50 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i7-4790 Intel Core i7-4790
4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz
403 (100%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3 Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3
14C 28T @ 2.00 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i7-4790 Intel Core i7-4790
4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz
2062 (100%)

Devices using this processor

Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3 Intel Core i7-4790
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