Intel Xeon E5-2670 vs Intel Xeon E3-1240 V2

Xeon E5-2670 vs Xeon E3-1240 V2 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2670 beats the Xeon E3-1240 V2 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1240 V2 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2670 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Xeon E3-1240 V2 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1240 V2. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1240 V2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2670.

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 E5-2670 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.