Intel Xeon E3-1280 v3 vs Intel Xeon W3680

Xeon E3-1280 v3 vs Xeon W3680 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1280 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 E3-1280 v3 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1280 v3. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1280 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon W3680. Also, the Xeon E3-1280 v3 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E3-1280 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.

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