Intel Xeon E3-1226 v3 vs Intel Xeon E3-1240 V2

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

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Intel Xeon E3-1240 V2

Price

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$ 99.00

$ 51.00 significantly less expensive

$ 150.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2307 points

2562 points

11% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4249 points

4% slightly better gaming score

4064 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1762 points

2114 points

19% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1691 points

2029 points

19% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

45.99 points

15% slightly higher Blender score

39.73 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

3.40 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

658th of 1,089

613th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E3-1226 v3 vs Xeon E3-1240 V2 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1240 V2 is faster than the Xeon E3-1226 v3. 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 E3-1240 V2 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1240 V2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1226 v3.

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.