Intel Xeon E5-2630 v2 vs Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 6 core CPU vs Intel 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2

Price

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$ 488.88

$ 189.95

$ 298.93 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2643 points

3% slightly better overall score

2544 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3683 points

4070 points

10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2305 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

2091 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2228 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

2009 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

55.40 points

39% slightly higher Blender score

39.80 points

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

2.6 GHz

3.30 GHz

26% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

603rd of 1,089

618th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v2 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2630 v2 vs Xeon E3-1230 V2 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2630 v2 is faster than the Xeon E3-1230 V2. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1230 V2 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2630 v2 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Xeon E3-1230 V2 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1230 V2. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1230 V2 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2630 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 E5-2630 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.