E5-1630 v3 vs. E5-2630 v3

[max0664]

Hello,
I have a GTX 1070 and I want to know which is a better choice.
I have an E5-1630 v3 and an E5-2630 v3.
I play at 1080P.
What should i use as CPU?

Thx
Max

 

[andy_mk3]

Depends on the game but the 1630 should in theory be better for most games due to the higher boost frequency, but a lot of newer games will make used of more cores on the 2630. So it really will be game specific.

Neither of them are fantastic gaming cpus either way though.

 

[max0664]

my old CPU was a i5-4670k so i think i am better with an e5-1630 v3.

 

[Rroff]

Can't check frequency at the moment but IIRC you can all core boost the 2630 with the right BIOS but not the 1630.

 

[EsaT]

my old CPU was a i5-4670k so i think i am better with an e5-1630 v3.

Those CPUs make sense only if you can get them for pocket money.
HT won't make that PC good for modern games.
For scale consoles have easily twice the CPU power!
(and no bloatware hogging resources)

 

[Rroff]

Those CPUs make sense only if you can get them for pocket money.
HT won't make that PC good for modern games.
For scale consoles have easily twice the CPU power!
(and no bloatware hogging resources)

Can't look up the frequencies and these don't overclock but my older Xeon 1650 V2 @ 4.4GHz still holds up well enough with a 3070FE at 1440p.

 

[max0664]

Its a hp Z440 workstation tower so i think there are not much overclocking features. Both CPUs i will get for pocket money.

 

[Armageus]

my old CPU was a i5-4670k so i think i am better with an e5-1630 v3.

Not really - it's still a Haswell chip essentially the same as the 4670k.

 

[andy_mk3]

my old CPU was a i5-4670k so i think i am better with an e5-1630 v3.

So you answered your own question.

 

[Rroff]

Its a hp Z440 workstation tower so i think there are not much overclocking features. Both CPUs i will get for pocket money.

Most Xeons are multiplier locked anyhow so can't be overclocked except slightly via BCLK which is generally problematic. There are a small number of exceptions (some Q models and 16xx V2) but AFAIK none* for the Haswell platform. With the right BIOS some (C2 stepping) 26xx Xeons can be all core locked at the single core turbo frequency which can help performance in games quite a bit.

Problem is the hit and miss availability and pricing - the better ones for gaming are the 1650, 1680, 2630 and 2640 V3.

* There are a load of multiplier unlocked 1650 and 1680 V3s out there but it isn't guaranteed you will get an unlocked one - apparently Intel did a run for one vendor (possibly Apple) which are fully unlocked but some people have found ones which are locked.

 

[max0664]

okay. thx for your info @all.

Cause Armageus say that they dont must be better so i think i should post my 3 variants.
So you can say what should i use for my 1070.

Old gaming PC:
2x8GB-Kit G.Skill Ares PC3-12800U CL8-8-8-24
Thermalright HR-02 Macho Rev.A (BW)
Intel Core i5-4670K Box, LGA1150
Gigabyte, GiBy GA-Z87X-UD3H

My first workstation was a HP Z420 (at the moment i am playing on this PC with the 1070):
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 0 @ 2.70GHz (64 GB ECC Memory)
Alternativ CPU is a E5-1620 (but for this CPU i dont Memory that work)

My other workstation is a HP Z440 with a E5-1630 v3 or E5-2630 v3 and 4x 16 GB PC4-2133P Memory.

Thanks all for your input!

 

[Armageus]

£75 i3 10105F and suitably cheap motherboard would likely be noticeably quicker than all of the above.



Quick comparison below, out of your chips either 4670k or 1630v3 are likely the best choice for games due to higher single thread performance (which although games have started to use more threads, having good performance on each thread is still important - particularly when it comes to frame times)

Overclocked 4670k will still likely have the lead as will likely be able to run lower memory latency than any xeon

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compar...-Intel-i3-10105F/1921vs1221vs2384vs2386vs4175

 

[Rroff]

£75 i3 10105F and suitably cheap motherboard would likely be noticeably quicker than all of the above.



Quick comparison below, out of your chips either 4670k or 1630v3 are likely the best choice for games due to higher single thread performance (which although games have started to use more threads, having good performance on each thread is still important - particularly when it comes to frame times)

Overclocked 4670k will still likely have the lead as will likely be able to run lower memory latency than any xeon

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compar...-Intel-i3-10105F/1921vs1221vs2384vs2386vs4175

I'm not really up to speed on the Haswell era Xeons but the V2s generally run a higher stable memory frequency and have more cache than the otherwise equivalent desktop parts allowing them to get slightly ahead for gaming performance and offset any latency impacts. (Assuming you have some high performance memory to take advantage of that - people pairing the V2 Xeons with 1600MHz average latency DDR3 aren't doing them any favour).