Intel Pentium G860 vs Intel Xeon E3-1270. Specifications

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  Intel Pentium G800 Intel Xeon E3
• Family
  Intel Pentium Intel Xeon E3
• Generation
  2 2
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  3 GHz 3.4 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  2 4
• CPU Threads
  2 8
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  No turbo 3.8 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  No turbo -
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  - 3.6 GHz

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• DirectX Version
  10.1 -
• Execution units
  6 -
• Generation
  6 -
• GPU Frequency
  850 MHz -
• GPU name
  Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge GT1) no iGPU
• GPU Turbo
  1100 MHz No turbo
• Max. displays
  2 -
• Release date
  Q2/2011 -
• Shader
  48 -
• Technology
  32 nm -

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  Conflicting source values: Decode / Encode | No No
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• JPEG
  No No
• VC-1
  Decode No
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Xeon E3-1270 and Intel Pentium G860. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No Yes
• Max. Memory
  32 GB 32 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR3-1066DDR3-1333 DDR3-1333
• PCIe lanes
  16 -
• PCIe version
  2.0 -
• PCIe
  - 2.0 x 20

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Pentium G860 and Intel Xeon E3-1270 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  65 W 80 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Pentium G860 and Intel Xeon E3-1270, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Sandy Bridge S Sandy-Bridge
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
• L3-Cache
  3 MB 8 MB
• Release date
  Q3/2011 Q2/2011
• Socket
  LGA 1155 LGA 1155
• Technology
  32 nm 32 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d