Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-520

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

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Intel Xeon E5-520

Price

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$ 223.11

$ 24.60

$ 198.51 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2007 points

19% slightly better overall score

1676 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3728 points

50% significantly better gaming score

2485 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1528 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

1418 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1468 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

1363 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

50.68 points

135% significantly higher Blender score

21.48 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2942 points

73% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1691 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1026 points

166% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

385 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3227 points

125% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1430 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1124 points

210% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

362 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

37% slightly higher clock speed

2.26 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

38% slightly higher turbo speed

2.53 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

80 W

Identical

80 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

144 GiB

350% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

713th of 1,089

780th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May

2009 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E3-1220 v3 vs Xeon E5-520 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-520 beats the Xeon E3-1220 v3 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1220 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1220 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-520. Also, the Xeon E3-1220 v3 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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.