Intel Xeon E3-1230

Intel Xeon E3-1230 Benchmark and Specs

Intel Xeon E3-1230 Processor benchmark, specs and release date - 3 GHz 4 core Intel Xeon E3 Family LGA 1155 CPU rating. Is the Xeon E3-1230 good for gaming?

Benchmark Score

2,180
Average score from 2 samples
High uncertainty
Performance
Average
Ranking
686th of 1,089
Popularity
521st of 1,089
Samples
2 benchmarks

CPU benchmarks

Here are the performance results of this CPU in both the hardwareDB Benchmark and other benchmark utilities. Synthetic tests are an estimation of real-world performance using consistent and repeatable benchmarks.

Overall

Average

2,180

Gaming

Good

3,414

Multitasking

Average

1,814

Heavy Workloads

Average

1,741

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Alternative benchmarks

Here are some benchmark results using alternative testing software

Blender

Blender

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

30
Geekbench 5 (multi)

Geekbench 5 (multi)

Multi threaded benchmark

2,572
Geekbench 5 (single)

Geekbench 5 (single)

Single threaded benchmark

671
Geekbench 6 (multi)

Geekbench 6 (multi)

Multi threaded benchmark

1,979
Geekbench 6 (single)

Geekbench 6 (single)

Single threaded benchmark

585

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CPU Comparison

The Intel Xeon E3-1230 compared against popular alternatives. Compare against more CPUs with our CPU Comparison Tool.

Intel Core i5-4690K
2,483 points
Intel Core i7-4700MQ
2,226 points
Intel Xeon E3-1230
2,180 points
Intel Core i5-6500TE
2,031 points
Intel Core i5-3450
1,948 points
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550
1,362 points
AMD Ryzen 3 2200U
1,349 points

Specifications

Clock Speed 3.2 GHz
Turbo Speed 3.6 GHz
Cores 4
Threads 8
PCIe Revision 2
PCIe Lanes 20
Socket LGA 1155
Family Xeon E3 Family
Memory Type DDR3-1066
Memory Channels 2
Max Memory 32 GiB
Release Date 2011-05-01
Supports ECC Memory Yes
TDP 80 W

More Intel Xeon E3 Family CPUs

Xeon E3-1220
Xeon E3-1220
Xeon E3-1225
Xeon E3-1225

Intel Xeon E3-1230

The Xeon E3-1230 is a 4 core CPU from Intel released in 2011. This chip has an average overall score with 2180 points in our CPU benchmark. Our gaming benchmark shows that this CPU is a good processor for gaming, with a score of 3414 points. As for multitasking and heavy workloads, the Xeon E3-1230 scores 1814 points and 1741 points respectively. Indeed, this is an average rating for very heavy workloads.

The Xeon E3-1230 has 4 cores and 8 threads. This CPU makes use of simultaneous multithreading technology to improve performance on parallel tasks. Each physical CPU core is divided into multiple logical processors. This Intel CPU has a clock speed of 3.2 GHz and a turbo speed of 3.6 GHz : a higher clock speed that can be reached when thermals and power delivery allow.

As for memory, the Xeon E3-1230 makes use of DDR3-1066 memory. The faster the memory, the better. Faster memory means that the CPU doesn't have to wait to get the data it needs. It can accommodate a maximum of 32 GiB of memory. Furthermore, this chip can handle up to 2 channels of RAM, a multichannel memory architecture allows for higher data transfer between the CPU and the memory. However, to take advantage of this, you must have enough memory slots filled. Error correcting memory is supported on this processor.

This CPU has fast connectivity with support for PCI-Express Gen 2. The faster the PCIe link, the better. This allows for better performance with GPUs and NVME SSDs. It has a total of 20 PCIe lanes.

Power and thermals for the Intel Xeon E3-1230 CPU are a TDP (Thermal Design Power) of 80 watts. This measures the amount of heat the processor produces when running at full load. This isn't a measure of power consumption, but it's a good estimate.

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