Intel Xeon W3550 vs Intel Xeon E3-1225 V2

Xeon W3550 vs Xeon E3-1225 V2 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon W3550 performs better than the Xeon E3-1225 V2. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1225 V2 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Xeon W3550 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1225 V2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon W3550. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache and L3 cache.

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 W3550 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.