Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3 vs Intel Xeon X5687

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 X5687

Price

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$ 223.11

$ 189.95

$ 33.16 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2007 points

6% slightly better overall score

1892 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3728 points

7% slightly better gaming score

3477 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1528 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

1446 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1468 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

1388 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

50.68 points

19% slightly higher Blender score

42.49 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

3.59 GHz

15% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

3.86 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

80 W

62% significantly lower TDP

130 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

288 GiB

800% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

713th of 1,089

740th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May

2011 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 X5687 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E3-1220 v3 performs better than the Xeon X5687. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X5687 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon X5687 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1220 v3. Also, the Xeon X5687 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E3-1220 v3 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5687 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.