Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3 vs Intel Core i3-540. Specifications

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

• CPU group
  Intel Xeon E3 v3 Intel Core i 500
• Family
  Intel Xeon E3 Intel Core i3
• Generation
  4 1
• 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
  3.3 GHz 3.06 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  4 2
• CPU Threads
  8 4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.7 GHz No turbo
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  3.7 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  - No turbo

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
  - 12
• Generation
  - 5
• GPU Frequency
  - 500 MHz
• GPU name
  no iGPU Intel HD Graphics (Westmere)
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo 730 MHz
• Max. displays
  - 2
• Release date
  - Q1/2010
• Shader
  - 24
• Technology
  - 32 nm

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

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  No Decode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• JPEG
  No No
• VC-1
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i3-540 and Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR3-1600 DDR3-1066DDR3-1333
• PCIe
  - 2.0 x 16

• AES-NI
  Yes No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3 and Intel Core i3-540 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)
  80 W 73 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3 and Intel Core i3-540, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Haswell S Clarkdale
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 SSE4.1, SSE4.2
• L3-Cache
  8 MB 4 MB
• Release date
  Q2/2013 Q1/2010
• Socket
  LGA 1150 LGA 1156
• Technology
  22 nm 32 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT