Intel Xeon E3-1240 v3 vs Intel Core 5 120U

Compare Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 4 core CPU vs Intel 10 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

2685 points

4342 points

61% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4156 points

7190 points

73% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2246 points

3534 points

57% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2159 points

3381 points

56% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

69.40 points

85.75 points

23% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3690 points

7114 points

92% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1181 points

2111 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

150% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

142% significantly higher clock speed

1.4 GHz

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

96 GiB

200% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

594th of 1,089

407th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Core (Series 1)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May

2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR5-5200

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E3-1240 v3 vs Core 5 120U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core 5 120U beats the Xeon E3-1240 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1240 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 5 120U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Xeon E3-1240 v3 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1240 v3. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1240 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core 5 120U.

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 E3-1240 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.