Intel Xeon E5-1620 vs Intel Xeon E3-1270 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2735 points

2% slightly better overall score

2678 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4274 points

4361 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2280 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

2181 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2192 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

2092 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

40.70 points

50.58 points

24% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2284 points

2287 points

0.13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

592 points

663 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2244 points

2338 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

611 points

672 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

2% slightly higher clock speed

3.50 GHz

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

582nd of 1,089

597th 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 E3-1270 V2 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-1620 performs better than the Xeon E3-1270 V2. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1270 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. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-1620 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1270 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.