XEON E3-1220 & Radeon R7 250X Gamer Test In 2021. Component Shortage Special!
11XEON E3-1220 & Radeon R7 250X Gamer Benchmark in 2021 Component Shortage Special!
This hardware is about 10 years old, but the speed of technology doubling isn't such the rule that it used to be. In this video I'm going to be benchmarking this stuff to see if it still holds up these days. Also we are going through a huge semi-conductor shortage. It might be years before we see reasonably priced hardware again. So I decided to jump onto eBay and pick up the best used card I could find for under 100. But the thing was it had to test almost as well as a Geforce 1030. The Radeon R7 250 price came in at a perfect result.
I needed to upgrade the CPU of a motherboard I got from an old fire-wall. I decided to go with a XEON because the price seemed low compared to i7 chips.
XFX R Series GHOST Core Radeon R7 1GB HDMI 2xDVI R7-250X-ZN R7-250x-ZNJ V3.1
The Radeon R7 250X was a mid-range graphics card by AMD, launched in February 2014. Built on the 28 nm process, and based on the Cape Verde graphics processor, in its Cape Verde XT variant, the card supports DirectX 12. Even though it supports DirectX 12, the feature level is only 11_1, which can be problematic with newer DirectX 12 titles. The Cape Verde graphics processor is an average sized chip with a die area of 123 mm² and 1,500 million transistors. It features 640 shading units, 40 texture mapping units, and 16 ROPs. AMD has paired 1,024 MB GDDR5 memory with the Radeon R7 250X, which are connected using a 128-bit memory interface. The GPU is operating at a frequency of 950 MHz, memory is running at 1125 MHz (4.5 Gbps effective).
Being a dual-slot card, the AMD Radeon R7 250X draws power from 1x 6-pin power connector, with power draw rated at 80 W maximum. Display outputs include: 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort. Radeon R7 250X is connected to the rest of the system using a PCI-Express 3.0 x16 interface. The card measures 210 mm in length, and features a dual-slot cooling solution. Its price at launch was 99 US Dollars.
XEON Specs:
Product Collection
Intel® Xeon® Processor E3 Family
Code Name
Products formerly Sandy Bridge
Vertical Segment
Server
Processor Number
E3-1220
Status
Discontinued
Launch Date
Q2'11
Lithography
32 nm
Recommended Customer Price
$189.00 - $203.00
CPU Specifications
# of Cores
4
# of Threads
4
Processor Base Frequency
3.10 GHz
Max Turbo Frequency
3.40 GHz
Cache
8 MB Intel® Smart Cache
Bus Speed
5 GT/s
Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 Frequency‡
3.40 GHz
TDP
80 W
Supplemental Information
Embedded Options Available
No
Memory Specifications
Max Memory Size (dependent on memory type)
32 GB
Memory Types
DDR3 1066/1333
Max # of Memory Channels
2
Max Memory Bandwidth
21 GB/s
ECC Memory Supported ‡
Yes
Processor Graphics
Intel® Quick Sync Video
No
Intel® InTru™ 3D Technology
No
Intel® Flexible Display Interface (Intel® FDI)
No
Intel® Clear Video HD Technology
No
Expansion Options
PCI Express Revision
2.0
Max # of PCI Express Lanes
20
Package Specifications
Sockets Supported
LGA1155
Max CPU Configuration
1
TCASE
69.1°C
Package Size
37.5mm x 37.5mm
Advanced Technologies
Intel® Turbo Boost Technology ‡
2.0
Intel vPro® Platform Eligibility ‡
Yes
Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology ‡
No
Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x) ‡
Yes
Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d) ‡
Yes
Intel® VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT) ‡
Yes
Intel® 64 ‡
Yes
Instruction Set
64-bit
Instruction Set Extensions
Intel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX
Idle States
Yes
Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology
Yes
Intel® Demand Based Switching
Yes
Thermal Monitoring Technologies
Yes
Intel® Fast Memory Access
Yes
Intel® Flex Memory Access
Yes
Intel® Identity Protection Technology ‡
Yes
Security & Reliability
Intel® AES New Instructions
Yes
Intel® Trusted Execution Technology ‡
Yes
Execute Disable Bit ‡
Yes