Intel Xeon E3-1226 v3 vs Intel Xeon E3-1230

Compare Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E3-1230

Price

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$ 99.00

$ 166.87 significantly less expensive

$ 265.87

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2307 points

5% slightly better overall score

2180 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4249 points

24% slightly better gaming score

3414 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1762 points

1814 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1691 points

1741 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

45.99 points

54% significantly higher Blender score

29.69 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2832 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2572 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

871 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

671 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3291 points

66% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1979 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1157 points

97% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

585 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

3.3 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

3.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

84 W

80 W

5% slightly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

Identical

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

658th of 1,089

686th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Xeon E3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May

2011 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E3-1226 v3 vs Xeon E3-1230 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1230 beats the Xeon E3-1226 v3 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1226 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Xeon E3-1230 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1226 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1230. Also, the Xeon E3-1226 v3 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1230 outputs less heat than Xeon E3-1226 v3 thanks to a slightly 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 E3-1226 v3 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.