Intel Xeon E3-1230 vs Intel N100

Compare Intel Xeon E3 Family 4 core CPU vs Intel 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

2180 points

69% significantly better overall score

1289 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3414 points

28% slightly better gaming score

2647 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1814 points

95% significantly better multitasking score

928 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1741 points

96% significantly better heavy workload score

886 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

29.69 points

33.61 points

13% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

300% significantly higher clock speed

0.8 GHz

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

686th of 1,089

873rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 May

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 vs N100 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1230 is faster than the N100. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the N100 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Xeon E3-1230 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1230 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the N100.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1230 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.