Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4

Compare Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 14 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4

Price

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$ 49.38

$ 162.57 significantly less expensive

$ 211.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2675 points

6066 points

126% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4187 points

5717 points

36% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2229 points

6174 points

176% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2142 points

6198 points

189% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

65.17 points

195.63 points

200% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3858 points

6195 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1168 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

988 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3756 points

6901 points

83% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1192 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1027 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

250% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

250% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

41% slightly higher clock speed

2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

15% slightly higher turbo speed

3.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

80 W

49% significantly lower TDP

120 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

598th of 1,089

247th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May

2016 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E3-1231 v3 vs Xeon E5-2680 v4 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2680 v4 is faster than the Xeon E3-1231 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1231 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2680 v4 has significantly more cores than the Xeon E3-1231 v3. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2680 v4 has 14 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E3-1231 v3. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1231 v3. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1231 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2680 v4. Also, the Xeon E3-1231 v3 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E3-1231 v3 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2680 v4 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. 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 E3-1231 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.