Comparison of Intel Xeon E3-1270 v5 and Intel Xeon Gold 5122

Attribute	Intel Xeon E3-1270 v5 ×	Intel Xeon Gold 5122 ×
General Information
Brand	Intel	Intel
Series	Intel Xeon E3	Intel Xeon Gold
Model	Intel Xeon E3-1270 v5	Intel Xeon Gold 5122
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	4	4
Frequency (GHz)	3.6	3.6
CPU Threads	8	8
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	+	+
Overclocking	-	-
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	4	3.7
Turbo (4 Cores) (GHz)	3.8	3.7
Encryption
AES-NI	+	+
Hardware codec support
JPEG	No	No
h264	No	No
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	No	No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	No	No
VP8	No	No
AV1	No	No
VC-1	No	No
VP9	No	No
AVC	No	No
Memory And PCIe
Memory type	DDR4-2133	DDR4-2666
PCIe lanes	16	48
PCIe version	3.0	3.0
ECC	+	+
Memory channels	2	6
Technical details
Release date (year)	2015	2017
Technology (Nm)	14	14
Socket	LGA 1151	LGA 3647
Virtualization	vt-d vt-x vt-x ept	vpro vt-d vt-x vt-x ept
L3-Cache (MB)	8	17
Architecture	Skylake	Skylake SP
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	80	105
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	11,332	10,896
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1,026	906
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	3,968	3,891
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	172	162
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	844	827
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	2.09	1.91
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	9.42	9.09
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)	4,536	4,167
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)	16,177	15,538