Intel Xeon E3-1226 v3 vs Intel Xeon X5670

Xeon E3-1226 v3 vs Xeon X5670 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1226 v3 beats the Xeon X5670 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X5670 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon X5670 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Xeon E3-1226 v3 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1226 v3. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1226 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon X5670. Also, the Xeon E3-1226 v3 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E3-1226 v3 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5670 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.