Intel Xeon E5-2420 v2 vs Intel Xeon E3-1240 V2

Xeon E5-2420 v2 vs Xeon E3-1240 V2 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1240 V2 is faster than the Xeon E5-2420 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2420 v2 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2420 v2 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Xeon E3-1240 V2 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1240 V2. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1240 V2 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2420 v2.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2420 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.