Intel Xeon E3-1220 vs Intel Xeon E5-620

Compare Intel Xeon E3 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1881 points

1884 points

0.16% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3441 points

30% slightly better gaming score

2639 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1439 points

1648 points

14% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1379 points

1596 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

27.68 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

25.76 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1577 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1482 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

532 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

366 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

22% slightly higher clock speed

2.53 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

27% slightly higher turbo speed

2.66 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

288 GiB

800% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

762nd of 1,114

761st of 1,114

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 Family

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 May

2010 February

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 E5-620 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-620 performs better than the Xeon E3-1220. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1220 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Xeon E5-620 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1220 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-620. Also, the Xeon E3-1220 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.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the Xeon E3-1220 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.