Intel Xeon E3-1220 vs Intel Xeon E5-1603 v3

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1881 points

2% slightly better overall score

1839 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3441 points

1% slightly better gaming score

3374 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1439 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

1406 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1379 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

1350 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

27.68 points

29.86 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

80 W

75% significantly lower TDP

140 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

746th of 1,089

753rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E3-1220 vs Xeon E5-1603 v3 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-1603 v3 performs better than the Xeon E3-1220. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1220 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. A Xeon E3-1220 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1603 v3 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 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.