Intel Xeon E5-2630 v2 vs Intel Xeon E3-1240 V2

Xeon E5-2630 v2 vs Xeon E3-1240 V2 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2630 v2 beats the Xeon E3-1240 V2 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1240 V2 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2630 v2 has significantly more cores than the Xeon E3-1240 V2. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2630 v2 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E3-1240 V2. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1240 V2. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1240 V2 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2630 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 E5-2630 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.