Intel Xeon E3-1220 vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3

Compare Intel Xeon E3 Family 4 core CPU vs Intel 18 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

6495 points

245% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3441 points

5724 points

66% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1439 points

6803 points

372% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1379 points

6991 points

406% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

27.68 points

231.70 points

737% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2143 points

7392 points

244% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

649 points

1060 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1577 points

8186 points

419% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

532 points

1134 points

113% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

350% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

800% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

80 W

81% significantly lower TDP

145 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

746th of 1,089

221st 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 E5-2696 v3 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 is faster 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 core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has significantly more cores with 18 cores compared to the Xeon E3-1220 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1220. A Xeon E3-1220 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2696 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.