Intel Xeon E5-649 vs Intel Xeon E3-1225 V2

Compare Intel Xeon 6 core CPU vs Intel 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

1937 points

1956 points

0.98% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3123 points

3586 points

14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1567 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

1496 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1504 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

1436 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

55.00 points

65% significantly higher Blender score

33.16 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2109 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1894 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

415 points

631 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.53 GHz

3.19 GHz

26% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

746th of 1,115

743rd of 1,115

Family

The product line

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-649 vs Xeon E3-1225 V2 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1225 V2 beats the Xeon E5-649 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-649 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-649 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Xeon E3-1225 V2 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1225 V2. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1225 V2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-649. The info from our database shows that the Xeon E5-649 has more L2 cache than the Xeon E3-1225 V2. The Xeon E5-649 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. For instance, the Xeon E5-649 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.