Intel Xeon E3-1230 vs Intel Xeon E5-430

Compare Intel Xeon E3 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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Intel Xeon E5-430

Price

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$ 265.87

$ 129.95

$ 135.92 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2180 points

2250 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3414 points

8% slightly better gaming score

3133 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1814 points

1956 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1741 points

1887 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

29.69 points

220% significantly higher Blender score

9.25 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2572 points

118% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1179 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

671 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

376 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1979 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1041 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

585 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

356 points

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

20% slightly higher clock speed

2.66 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

80 W

Identical

80 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

686th of 1,089

673rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 Family

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 May

2007 November

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 E5-430 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-430 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.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Xeon E3-1230 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1230 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-430. 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 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.