Intel Xeon E5-2650 vs Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2

Xeon E5-2650 vs Xeon E3-1230 V2 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2650 beats the Xeon E3-1230 V2 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1230 V2 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2650 has significantly more cores than the Xeon E3-1230 V2. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2650 has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E3-1230 V2. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1230 V2. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1230 V2 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2650.

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 E5-2650 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.