Intel Xeon E3-1226 v3 vs Intel Xeon X5650

Compare Intel Xeon E3 v3 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 X5650

Price

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$ 99.00

$ 46.96

$ 52.04 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2307 points

4% slightly better overall score

2207 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4249 points

31% slightly better gaming score

3219 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1762 points

1889 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1691 points

1825 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

45.99 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

44.76 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2832 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2315 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

871 points

93% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

451 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3291 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2241 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1157 points

160% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

445 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

24% slightly higher clock speed

2.66 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

20% slightly higher turbo speed

3.06 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

288 GiB

800% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

658th of 1,089

682nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May

2010 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 X5650 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1226 v3 is faster than the Xeon X5650. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X5650 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon X5650 has significantly more cores than the Xeon E3-1226 v3. Indeed, the Xeon X5650 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E3-1226 v3. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1226 v3. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1226 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon X5650. Also, the Xeon E3-1226 v3 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E3-1226 v3 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5650 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the Xeon E3-1226 v3 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.