Intel Core i7-2600 vs Intel Xeon E5-2630 v2

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2630 v2

Price

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$ 226.37

$ 262.51 significantly less expensive

$ 488.88

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2539 points

2643 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3984 points

8% slightly better gaming score

3683 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2108 points

2305 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2031 points

2228 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

38.63 points

55.40 points

43% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2047 points

2510 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

608 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

487 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2040 points

2421 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

610 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

485 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

30% slightly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

22% slightly higher turbo speed

3.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

80 W

18% slightly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

768 GiB

2299% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

619th of 1,089

603rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon E5 v2 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-2600 vs Xeon E5-2630 v2 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2630 v2 performs better than the Core i7-2600. Despite this, the Core i7-2600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2630 v2 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-2600 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-2600. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-2600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2630 v2. Also, the Core i7-2600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2630 v2 outputs less heat than Core i7-2600 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-2600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.