Intel Xeon W3580 vs Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3

Compare Intel Xeon 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3

Price

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$ 375.00

$ 223.11

$ 151.89 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1617 points

2007 points

24% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2977 points

3728 points

25% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1234 points

1528 points

23% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1184 points

1468 points

23% slightly better heavy workload score

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Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2417 points

2942 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

607 points

1026 points

69% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (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

3.33 GHz

7% slightly higher clock speed

3.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

80 W

62% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

24 GiB

32 GiB

33% slightly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

785th of 1,089

713th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 August

2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon W3580 vs Xeon E3-1220 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1220 v3 beats the Xeon W3580 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon W3580 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Xeon W3580 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon W3580 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E3-1220 v3. Also, the Xeon W3580 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1220 v3 outputs less heat than Xeon W3580 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 W3580 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.