Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs Intel Xeon E3-1270 V2

Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs Xeon E3-1270 V2 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 beats the Xeon E3-1270 V2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1270 V2 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has significantly more cores than the Xeon E3-1270 V2. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has 18 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E3-1270 V2. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1270 V2.

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 E5-2696 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.