Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2689

Compare Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 4 core CPU vs Intel 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2689

Price

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$ 223.11

$ 109.95

$ 113.16 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2007 points

4209 points

109% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3728 points

4875 points

30% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1528 points

3976 points

160% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1468 points

3900 points

165% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

50.68 points

78.82 points

55% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

300% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

80 W

43% significantly lower TDP

115 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

713th of 1,089

418th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E3-1220 v3 vs Xeon E5-2689 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2689 is faster than the Xeon E3-1220 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1220 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2689 has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Xeon E3-1220 v3 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1220 v3. A Xeon E3-1220 v3 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2689 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Xeon E3-1220 v3 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.