Intel Xeon E3-1230 vs Intel Xeon E5-620

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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2180 points

2291 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3414 points

16% slightly better gaming score

2929 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1814 points

2085 points

14% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1741 points

2031 points

16% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

29.69 points

15% slightly higher Blender score

25.76 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1979 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1482 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

585 points

59% 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

3.2 GHz

26% slightly higher clock speed

2.53 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

35% 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

686th of 1,089

662nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 Family

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 May

2010 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 E5-620 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-620 beats the Xeon E3-1230 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1230 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. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1230 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-620. 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.

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.