Intel Xeon E3-1240 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-520

Compare Intel Xeon E3 v3 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

2685 points

60% significantly better overall score

1676 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4156 points

67% significantly better gaming score

2485 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2246 points

58% significantly better multitasking score

1418 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2159 points

58% significantly better heavy workload score

1363 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

69.40 points

223% significantly higher Blender score

21.48 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3742 points

121% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1691 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1145 points

197% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

385 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3690 points

158% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1430 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1181 points

226% 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

3.4 GHz

50% significantly higher clock speed

2.26 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

50% significantly 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

594th of 1,089

780th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May

2009 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E3-1240 v3 vs Xeon E5-520 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1240 v3 beats the Xeon E5-520 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-520 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Xeon E3-1240 v3 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1240 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-520. Also, the Xeon E3-1240 v3 has a significantly 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 E3-1240 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.