Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 vs Intel Xeon E3-1240 V2

Compare Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 4 core CPU vs Intel 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E3-1240 V2

Price

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$ 49.38

$ 100.62 significantly less expensive

$ 150.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2675 points

4% slightly better overall score

2562 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4187 points

3% slightly better gaming score

4064 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2229 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

2114 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2142 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

2029 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

65.17 points

64% significantly higher Blender score

39.73 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

3.4 GHz

3.40 GHz

0.03% slightly higher clock speed

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Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

598th of 1,089

613th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E3-1231 v3 vs Xeon E3-1240 V2 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1231 v3 beats the Xeon E3-1240 V2 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1240 V2 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1240 V2 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E3-1231 v3.

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 E3-1231 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.