Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2643

Compare Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2643

Price

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$ 278.50

$ 1878.50 significantly less expensive

$ 2157.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2545 points

2971 points

16% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3940 points

4108 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2128 points

2620 points

23% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2046 points

2542 points

24% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

61.88 points

51% significantly higher Blender score

40.83 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3681 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2888 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1126 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

646 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3699 points

76% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2094 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1160 points

104% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

566 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

3.3 GHz

Identical

3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

80 W

62% significantly lower TDP

130 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

384 GiB

1100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

617th of 1,089

542nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May

2012 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 E3-1230 v3 vs Xeon E5-2643 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2643 is faster than the Xeon E3-1230 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1230 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Both the Xeon E3-1230 v3 and Xeon E5-2643 have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1230 v3 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E3-1230 v3 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2643 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.