Intel Xeon E3-1220 vs Intel Xeon X5687

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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Intel Xeon X5687

Price

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$ 115.00

$ 74.95 significantly less expensive

$ 189.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1881 points

1892 points

0.58% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3441 points

3477 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1439 points

1446 points

0.49% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1379 points

1388 points

0.65% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

27.68 points

42.49 points

53% significantly higher Blender score

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

3.4 GHz

3.86 GHz

13% 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

746th of 1,089

740th 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 X5687 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon X5687 beats the Xeon E3-1220 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1220 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon X5687 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1220. Also, the Xeon X5687 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E3-1220 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.

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.