Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2 vs Intel Xeon E5-620

Compare Intel 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2544 points

11% slightly better overall score

2291 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4070 points

38% slightly better gaming score

2929 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2091 points

0.29% slightly better multitasking score

2085 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2009 points

2031 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

39.80 points

54% significantly higher Blender score

25.76 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

3.30 GHz

30% slightly higher clock speed

2.53 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

0.25 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

68166% significantly more L3 cache

0.01 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

618th of 1,089

662nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E3-1230 V2 vs Xeon E5-620 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-620 performs better than the Xeon E3-1230 V2. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1230 V2 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1230 V2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-620. The info from our database shows that the Xeon E3-1230 V2 has more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-620. The Xeon E3-1230 V2 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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