Intel Xeon E3-1220 vs Intel Xeon E5-649

Compare Intel Xeon E3 Family 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-649

Price

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$ 115.00

$ 14.95 slightly less expensive

$ 129.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1881 points

1937 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3441 points

10% slightly better gaming score

3123 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1439 points

1567 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1379 points

1504 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

27.68 points

55.00 points

98% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1577 points

2109 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

532 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

415 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% 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

16% slightly higher turbo speed

2.93 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

746th of 1,089

730th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 Family

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 May

2011 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 E5-649 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-649 beats the Xeon E3-1220 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1220 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-649 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Xeon E3-1220 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1220. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1220 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-649. 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.

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.