Intel Xeon E5-430 vs Intel Xeon E3-1220 v5

Compare Intel Xeon 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v5 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E3-1220 v5

Price

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$ 129.95

$ 200.00 significantly less expensive

$ 329.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2250 points

2407 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3133 points

4431 points

41% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1956 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

1840 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1887 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

1766 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

9.25 points

47.62 points

414% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1179 points

3379 points

186% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

376 points

1204 points

220% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1041 points

3325 points

219% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

356 points

1198 points

236% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.66 GHz

3.00 GHz

12% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

80 W

Identical

80 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

12 MiB

1100% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

673rd of 1,089

642nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon

Xeon E3 v5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2007 November

2015 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-430 vs Xeon E3-1220 v5 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1220 v5 beats the Xeon E5-430 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-430 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1220 v5 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-430. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Xeon E5-430 has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon E3-1220 v5

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. For instance, the Xeon E5-430 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.