Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2 vs Intel Xeon E3-1270 V2

Xeon E3-1230 V2 vs Xeon E3-1270 V2 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1230 V2 beats the Xeon E3-1270 V2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1270 V2 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1270 V2 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E3-1230 V2. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches and L3 cache.

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. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1230 V2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.