Intel Xeon E3-1226 v3 vs Intel Xeon X5570

Compare Intel Xeon E3 v3 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 X5570

Price

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$ 99.00

$ 98.95

$ 0.05 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2307 points

4% slightly better overall score

2200 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4249 points

24% slightly better gaming score

3421 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1762 points

1823 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1691 points

1750 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2832 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2624 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

871 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

541 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3291 points

89% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1741 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1157 points

141% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

480 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

12% slightly higher clock speed

2.93 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

3.33 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

84 W

13% slightly lower TDP

95 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

144 GiB

350% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

658th of 1,089

685th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May

2009 February

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 X5570 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1226 v3 is faster than the Xeon X5570. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X5570 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1226 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon X5570. Also, the Xeon E3-1226 v3 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E3-1226 v3 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5570 CPU because of its slightly 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 E3-1226 v3 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.