| Attribute |
Intel Xeon E3-1230 v5 × | 
Intel Core i7-8550U × |
| General Information | | |
| Brand | Intel | Intel |
| Series | Intel Xeon E3 | Intel Core i7 |
| Model | Intel Xeon E3-1230 v5 | Intel Core i7-8550U |
| CPU Cores and Base Frequency | | |
| CPU Cores | 4 | 4 |
| Frequency (GHz) | 3.4 | 1.8 |
| CPU Threads | 8 | 8 |
| Core architecture | normal | normal |
| Hyperthreading | + | + |
| Overclocking | - | - |
| Turbo (1 Core) (GHz) | 3.8 | 4 |
| Turbo (4 Cores) (GHz) | 3.6 | 2.4 |
| Encryption | | |
| AES-NI | + | + |
| Hardware codec support | | |
| JPEG | No | Decode / Encode |
| h264 | No | Decode / Encode |
| h265 / HEVC (8 bit) | No | Decode / Encode |
| h265 / HEVC (10 bit) | No | Decode / Encode |
| VP8 | No | Decode / Encode |
| AV1 | No | No |
| VC-1 | No | Decode |
| VP9 | No | Decode / Encode |
| AVC | No | Decode / Encode |
| Internal Graphics | | |
| GPU name | - | Intel UHD Graphics 620 |
| GPU frequency (GHz) | - | 0.3 |
| GPU (Turbo) (GHz) | - | 1.15 |
| Generation | - | 9 |
| DirectX Version | - | 12 |
| Execution units | - | 24 |
| Shader | - | 192 |
| Max. GPU Memory (GB) | - | 64 |
| Max. displays | - | 3 |
| 1↑GPU Release date (year) | - | 2016 |
| Memory And PCIe | | |
| Memory type | DDR4-2133 | DDR4-2400 SO-DIMM |
| Max. Memory (GB) | - | 32 |
| PCIe lanes | 16 | 12 |
| PCIe version | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| ECC | + | - |
| Memory channels | 2 | 2 |
| Technical details | | |
| Release date (year) | 2015 | 2017 |
| Technology (Nm) | 14 | 14 |
| Socket | LGA 1151 | BGA 1356 |
| Virtualization | | |
| L3-Cache (MB) | 8 | 8 |
| Architecture | Skylake | Kaby Lake Refresh |
| Instruction set (ISA) | x86-64 (64 bit) | x86-64 (64 bit) |
| Thermal Management | | |
| TDP (PL1) (W) | 80 | 15 |
| Benchmarks | | |
| iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS) | - | 442 |
| Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark | 10,735 | 8,579 |
| Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core) | 931 | 806 |
| Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core) | 3,761 | 2,461 |
| Cinebench R15 (Single-Core) | 163 | 167 |
| Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core) | 799 | 564 |
| Cinebench R20 (Single-Core) | - | 354 |
| Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core) | - | 1,211 |
| Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core) | 1.98 | 1.89 |
| Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core) | 8.93 | 6.18 |
| Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core) | 4,309 | 4,162 |
| Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core) | 15,325 | 12,116 |
| Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (iGPU, OpenGL) | - | 43.3 |
| Blender 2.81 (bmw27) | - | 671.5 |
| Cinebench R23 (Single-Core) | 975 | 979 |
| Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core) | 4,832 | 3,111 |