Intel Xeon E5-1620 vs Intel Xeon E3-1240 V2

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 4 core CPU vs Intel 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E3-1240 V2

Price

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$ 153.08

$ 150.00

$ 3.08 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2735 points

6% slightly better overall score

2562 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4274 points

5% slightly better gaming score

4064 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2280 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

2114 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2192 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

2029 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

40.70 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

39.73 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

5% slightly higher clock speed

3.40 GHz

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

582nd of 1,089

613th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-1620 vs Xeon E3-1240 V2 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-1620 is faster than the Xeon E3-1240 V2. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1240 V2 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-1620 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E3-1240 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 E5-1620 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.