Intel Xeon E5-2630 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

2586 points

2678 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3592 points

4361 points

21% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2259 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

2181 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2183 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

2092 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

38.04 points

50.58 points

32% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3117 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2287 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

510 points

663 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2380 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2338 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

448 points

672 points

49% 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

2.3 GHz

3.50 GHz

52% significantly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

610th 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 E5-2630 vs Xeon E3-1270 V2 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2630 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 E5-2630 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1270 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.