Intel Xeon E5-620 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2291 points

2407 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2929 points

4431 points

51% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2085 points

13% slightly better multitasking score

1840 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2031 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

1766 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

25.76 points

47.62 points

84% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1482 points

3325 points

124% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

366 points

1198 points

227% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.53 GHz

3.00 GHz

18% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

2.66 GHz

3.5 GHz

31% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

80 W

Identical

80 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

288 GiB

350% significantly more supported memory

64 GiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.25 MiB

1 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

0.01 MiB

8 MiB

68166% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

662nd 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

2010 February

2015 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR4-1866

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-620 vs Xeon E3-1220 v5 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1220 v5 is faster than the Xeon E5-620. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-620 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Xeon E5-620 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1220 v5 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-620. Also, the Xeon E3-1220 v5 has a slightly higher turbo speed. 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 E3-1220 v5 has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-620. The Xeon E3-1220 v5 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 E5-620 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.