Intel Xeon E3-1281 v3 vs Intel Xeon X5647

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

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Price

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$ 546.25
$ 98.02
$ 448.23 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3044 points
3170 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5018 points
32% slightly better gaming score
3778 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2460 points
2955 points
20% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2361 points
2885 points
22% slightly better heavy workload score

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Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
26% slightly higher clock speed
2.93 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz
28% slightly higher turbo speed
3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

82 W
58% significantly lower TDP
130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
3
49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
288 GiB
800% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

534th of 1,089
516th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 v3 Family
Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May
2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
Yes

Xeon E3-1281 v3 vs Xeon X5647 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon X5647 is faster than the Xeon E3-1281 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1281 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 X5647. Also, the Xeon E3-1281 v3 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E3-1281 v3 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5647 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 E3-1281 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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