Intel Xeon E3-1280 v3 vs Intel Xeon E3-1270 V2

Compare Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 4 core CPU vs Intel 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

2814 points

5% slightly better overall score

2678 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4480 points

2% slightly better gaming score

4361 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2320 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

2181 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2227 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

2092 points

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Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3457 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2287 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

956 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

663 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3800 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2338 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1215 points

80% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

672 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

3.50 GHz

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

567th of 1,089

597th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 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 E3-1280 v3 vs Xeon E3-1270 V2 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E3-1280 v3 performs better than the Xeon E3-1270 V2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1270 V2 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1280 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E3-1270 V2.

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 E3-1280 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.