Intel Xeon E5-2640 vs Intel Xeon E3-1270 V2

Xeon E5-2640 vs Xeon E3-1270 V2 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2640 is faster than the Xeon E3-1270 V2. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1270 V2 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2640 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Xeon E3-1270 V2 that 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 slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2640. In terms of cache, the Xeon E5-2640 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E3-1270 V2. The Xeon E5-2640 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 E5-2640 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.