Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-620

Compare Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 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

2545 points

11% slightly better overall score

2291 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3940 points

34% slightly better gaming score

2929 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2128 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

2085 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2046 points

0.74% slightly better heavy workload score

2031 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

61.88 points

140% significantly higher Blender score

25.76 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3699 points

149% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1482 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1160 points

216% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

366 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

30% slightly higher clock speed

2.53 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

39% slightly higher turbo speed

2.66 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

80 W

Identical

80 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

288 GiB

800% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

617th of 1,089

662nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May

2010 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 E5-620 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-620 performs better than the Xeon E3-1230 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1230 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1230 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-620. Also, the Xeon E3-1230 v3 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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