Intel Xeon E3-1230 vs Intel Xeon E5-520

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 E5-520

Price

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$ 265.87

$ 24.60

$ 241.27 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2180 points

30% slightly better overall score

1676 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3414 points

37% slightly better gaming score

2485 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1814 points

27% slightly better multitasking score

1418 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1741 points

27% slightly better heavy workload score

1363 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

29.69 points

38% slightly higher Blender score

21.48 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2572 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1691 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

671 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

385 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1979 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1430 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

585 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

362 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

41% slightly higher clock speed

2.26 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

42% slightly higher turbo speed

2.53 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

144 GiB

350% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

686th of 1,089

780th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 Family

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 May

2009 February

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 E5-520 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1230 is faster than the Xeon E5-520. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-520 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1230 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-520. Also, the Xeon E3-1230 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.

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.