Xeon E3-1275 v3 good for gaming?

[Maaxwell]

The price of the Xeon E3-1275 v3 is very similar to the intel i7 4770k. My question is, will the Xeon E3-1275 v3 fine for gaming? will it be on par with the i7 or even be a bit better ?

 

[das_stig]

It will play the games and probably very well, but it is a server/workstation chip, just get the i7.

 

[Alec Mowat]

Yes, but the motherboards that are used for those chips may not be. It's not designed for gaming.

 

[JOOK-D]

If it's close to the price of the i7 4770k, just get the i7. I would recommend the 1230v2 and v3 for gaming (since they're so closely priced to the i5s but with the performance of the i7's) but not much more than that.

 

[Maaxwell]

I have an amd FX 6200 CPU and an amd 7870 GPU .... but the fx6200 just isn't cutting it in single threaded games, for general use in windows it's okay but in games I'm pretty confident that in some more CPU bound games it's holding me back as i get annoying sudden frame-rate drops now and again. i have considered getting an amd 8350 which is compatible with my mobo but i'm just gonna sell my mobo and make the move to Intel. I have considered the i5 but i know that next gen games will be able to utilize 8 threads and that the more threads you have the better. There is a quote i read that said most next gen games will enable the i7 to pull ahead of the pack in performance, due to having 8 threads. btw some time this year i plan on upgrading my GPU to maybe something like a 780 or 780ti therefore i cannot really stick with the fx6200 for bottle-necking reasons. also i am getting an nvidia gpu in hope to get a g-sync monitor too ...

 

[Alec Mowat]

The FX-8350 should be sufficient. The i5 will give a little better performance, but if you are not running SLI, there will be minimal difference between the two. The i7 won't be much of a step up for gaming, since most games don't use more than 4 cores, and the i7 technically has 8 threads and only 4 cores.

 

[Maaxwell]

The FX-8350 should be sufficient. The i5 will give a little better performance, but if you are not running SLI, there will be minimal difference between the two. The i7 won't be much of a step up for gaming, since most games don't use more than 4 cores, and the i7 technically has 8 threads and only 4 cores.

But the next gen consoles have an 8 core Custom APU and i have read that we will be able to see the true performance of the i7 in next gen games as it will be able to use all 8 treads in next gen optimized games whereas an i5 only has 4 threads. And yeah the amd 8350 is an option that I am heavily considering at the moment due to the low price point, not too sure though....

 

[Maaxwell]

Reasons why i am considering a xeon e3-1275 v3 is because it gives basically the same performance, if not slightly more, as the i7 4770k and i am not interested at all in overclocking my CPU. And i don't want an i5 as they only have 4 threads and next gen games are able to utilize 8 threads(due to the consoles having 8 core and 8 threads) so the xeon e3-1275 v3, i74770k and the FX 8350 all seem to be somewhat the most future proof options there are.

 

[Alec Mowat]

It's basically the same chip, it just ECC features and a few other minor tweaks for server boards.
Just get the i7 4770k, you won't notice the difference.

8 threads and 8 cores are not the same. The i7 still only has 4 cores. So does the Xeon. The FX-8350 is the only chip that has true 8 cores.

In synthetic benchmarks, the Xeon might be a little ahead, but games will be designed to run on the i7. You will get better performance on the i7. The only different I really notice is the ECC support.

Look at the numbers; http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Xeon-E3-1275-v3-vs-Intel-Core-i7-4770K

Excluding the odd benchmarks in one program, everything is the exact same in the specs.

 

[Lessthannil]

Where is your evidence that games will run better on the i7 than on the Xeon? I do hope that you know that Xeons and i7s are cut from the same cloth but just with different features enabled and disabled.

The Xeon E3-1230 V3 will be just as good as the i7-4770 given that you dont use Quick Sync. If you need that, the Xeon E3-1245 V3 will provide that while still being cheaper than the i7-4770(k).

 

[Alec Mowat]

Programmers will build games with i7 in mind, not the Xeon. There may be quirks that impact the Xeon chips that won't impact the i7's. No idea what they are, just assuming.

It's really more or less the same. Just costs more. The motherboard and RAM will have a greater impact on performance than switching between either of those processors.