Intel Xeon E3-1241 v3 vs Intel Xeon E3-1281 v3

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

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Intel Xeon E3-1281 v3

Price

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$ 254.74

$ 291.51 significantly less expensive

$ 546.25

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2688 points

3044 points

13% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4287 points

5018 points

17% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2219 points

2460 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2132 points

2361 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

48.98 points

76.91 points

57% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3840 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

3467 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1164 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

953 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3893 points

4098 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1220 points

1291 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

3.7 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

4.1 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

80 W

2% slightly lower TDP

82 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

Identical

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

592nd of 1,089

534th 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 E3-1241 v3 vs Xeon E3-1281 v3 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1281 v3 is faster than the Xeon E3-1241 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1241 v3 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1281 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1241 v3. Also, the Xeon E3-1281 v3 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E3-1241 v3 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1281 v3 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1241 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.