Intel Xeon E3-1245 v3 vs Intel Xeon E3-1240 V2

Xeon E3-1245 v3 vs Xeon E3-1240 V2 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1240 V2 beats the Xeon E3-1245 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1245 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1240 V2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1245 v3.

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 E3-1245 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.