Intel Xeon E5-2620 vs Intel Xeon E3-1270 V2

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 6 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

2694 points

0.60% slightly better overall score

2678 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3212 points

4361 points

35% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2534 points

16% slightly better multitasking score

2181 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2503 points

19% slightly better heavy workload score

2092 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

38.93 points

50.58 points

29% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2793 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2287 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points

663 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1902 points

2338 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

390 points

672 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

2 GHz

3.50 GHz

75% significantly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

591st 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 E5-2620 vs Xeon E3-1270 V2 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2620 performs better than the Xeon E3-1270 V2. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1270 V2 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2620 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Xeon E3-1270 V2 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1270 V2. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1270 V2 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2620.

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 E5-2620 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.