Intel Xeon E3-1230 vs Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2

Compare Intel Xeon E3 Family 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2

Price

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$ 265.87

$ 30.00

$ 235.87 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2180 points

2286 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3414 points

3603 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1814 points

1895 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1741 points

1822 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

29.69 points

49.31 points

66% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2572 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2305 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

671 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

633 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1979 points

2380 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

585 points

645 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

3.7 GHz

15% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

3.9 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

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

100% 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

256 GiB

700% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

686th of 1,089

665th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 Family

Xeon E5 v2 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 May

2013 August

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 Xeon E5-1620 v2 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-1620 v2 is faster than the Xeon E3-1230. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1230 in all gaming tests too.

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 E5-1620 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E3-1230. Also, the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E3-1230 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1620 v2 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 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.