Intel Xeon E3-1270 v3 vs Intel Xeon W3680

Xeon E3-1270 v3 vs Xeon W3680 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1270 v3 beats the Xeon W3680 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon W3680 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon W3680 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Xeon E3-1270 v3 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1270 v3. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1270 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon W3680. Also, the Xeon E3-1270 v3 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E3-1270 v3 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon W3680 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 E3-1270 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.