Xeon E3-1270 v3: specs and benchmarks

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Xeon E3-1270 v3
2013
4 cores / 8 threads, 80 Watt
4.58

Xeon E3-1270 v3 provides poor benchmark performance at 4.58% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.

Summary

Intel started Xeon E3-1270 v3 sales 2 June 2013 at a recommended price of $370. This is a Haswell-WS architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 4 cores and 8 threads, and is based on 22 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 3900 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is FCLGA1150 processor with a TDP of 80 Watt. It supports DDR3, DDR4 memory.

Primary details

Xeon E3-1270 v3 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking1306
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation2.32
Market segmentServer
Power efficiency5.42of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme)
Architecture codenameHaswell-WS (2013−2014)
Release date2 June 2013 (11 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$370of 17,906 (Xeon Platinum 8280L)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

Detailed specifications

Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Physical cores4 (Quad-Core)
Threads8
Base clock speed3.5 GHzof 4.7 GHz (FX-9590)
Boost clock speed3.9 GHzof 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS)
Bus rate5 GT/s
L1 cache64 KB (per core)of 80 KB (EPYC 9965)
L2 cache256 KB (per core)
L3 cache8192 KB (shared)of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X)
Chip lithography22 nmof 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Die size160 mm2
Number of transistors1,400 millionof 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility-

Compatibility

Information on Xeon E3-1270 v3 compatibility with other computer components and devices: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration1of 8 (Opteron 842)
SocketFCLGA1150
Power consumption (TDP)80 Wattof 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Xeon E3-1270 v3. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX2
AES-NI+
AVX+
vPro+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+
Turbo Boost Technology2.0
Hyper-Threading Technology+
TSX+
Idle States+
Thermal Monitoring+
Flex Memory Access+
SIPP+
Fast Memory Access+

Security technologies

Processor technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT+
EDB+
Secure Key+
Identity Protection+
OS Guard+
Anti-Theft+

Virtualization technologies

Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.

VT-d+
VT-x+
EPT+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Xeon E3-1270 v3's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3, DDR4
Maximum memory size32 GBof 6 TiB (EPYC 9124)
Max memory channels2of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)
Maximum memory bandwidth25.6 GB/sof 460.8 GB/s (EPYC 9124)
ECC memory support+

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCIe version3.0of 5.0 (Core i9-12900K)
PCI Express lanes16of 128 (EPYC 7551P)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Xeon E3-1270 v3. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Xeon E3-1270 v3 4.58

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Xeon E3-1270 v3 7272

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Xeon E3-1270 v3 1229

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Xeon E3-1270 v3 3906

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

Xeon E3-1270 v3's performance relative to its closest rivals among server CPUs.


Xeon E-2124G 100.44
Xeon Phi 7210 100.44
Xeon E3-1270 v3 100
Xeon E-2224 99.78

AMD equivalent

According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to Xeon E3-1270 v3 is Opteron 6348, which is faster by 8% and higher by 66 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest AMD rivals to Xeon E3-1270 v3:

Opteron 6348 107.86
Xeon E3-1270 v3 100
Opteron 6380 91.92
Opteron 6276 87.34

Similar processors

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Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for Xeon E3-1270 v3, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Xeon E3-1270 v3 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 4874 configurations using Xeon E3-1270 v3 in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
0.6% (30/4874)
RTX 4070 Ti GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
0.08% (4/4874)
RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
0.04% (2/4874)
RTX 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
0.1% (6/4874)
RTX 4070 GeForce RTX 4070
0.04% (2/4874)
RTX 3090 GeForce RTX 3090
0.02% (1/4874)
RTX 3080 GeForce RTX 3080
0.04% (2/4874)
RX 7800 XT Radeon RX 7800 XT
0.06% (3/4874)
RTX 3070 Ti GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
0.1% (6/4874)

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