Intel Xeon E5-1620 vs Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2

Xeon E5-1620 vs Xeon E3-1230 V2 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1620 beats the Xeon E3-1230 V2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1230 V2 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-1620 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1230 V2.

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 E5-1620 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.