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

Xeon E5-2630 vs Xeon E3-1230 V2 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2630 beats the Xeon E3-1230 V2 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1230 V2 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2630 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Xeon E3-1230 V2 that 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 significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2630.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2630 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.