Intel Xeon E3-1281 v3 vs Intel Xeon X5670

Compare Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon X5670

Price

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$ 546.25

$ 88.88

$ 457.37 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3044 points

3118 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5018 points

18% slightly better gaming score

4250 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2460 points

2751 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2361 points

2664 points

12% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

76.91 points

48% significantly higher Blender score

51.81 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3467 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2417 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

953 points

102% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

470 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4098 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2310 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1291 points

162% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

491 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

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

23% slightly higher turbo speed

3.33 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

82 W

15% slightly lower TDP

95 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

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

522nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May

2010 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

Xeon E3-1281 v3 vs Xeon X5670 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon X5670 performs better than the Xeon E3-1281 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1281 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon X5670 has significantly more cores than the Xeon E3-1281 v3. Indeed, the Xeon X5670 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E3-1281 v3. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1281 v3. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1281 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon X5670. Also, the Xeon E3-1281 v3 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E3-1281 v3 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5670 CPU because of its slightly 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.