Intel Xeon E3-1270 vs Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  Intel Xeon E3 Intel Xeon E5
• CPU group
  Intel Xeon E3 Intel Xeon E5 v4
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Generation
  2 6
• Predecessor
  -- Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Frequency
  3.40 GHz 2.40 GHz
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.80 GHz 3.30 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No No

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

• GPU name
  no iGPU no iGPU
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo

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

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• h264
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No No
• VC-1
  No No
• JPEG
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 and Intel Xeon E3-1270. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1333 DDR4-2400
• Max. Memory
  32 GB
• Memory channels
  2 4
• ECC
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon E3-1270 and Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  80 W 120 W

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

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L3-Cache
  8.00 MB 35.00 MB
• Architecture
  Sandy-Bridge Broadwell E
• Technology
  32 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• Socket
  LGA 1155 LGA 2011-3
• Release date
  Q2/2011 Q1/2016