Intel Core i7-3960X vs Intel Xeon E5-1650

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

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Intel Xeon E5-1650

Price

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$ 250.00

$ 66.00

$ 184.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3693 points

7% slightly better overall score

3446 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4998 points

6% slightly better gaming score

4699 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3261 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

3046 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3155 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

2950 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

69.62 points

25% slightly higher Blender score

55.26 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3363 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

3081 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

665 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

640 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3209 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2889 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

661 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

595 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

3.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

Identical

130 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

256 GiB

300% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

464th of 1,089

490th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 November

2012 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-3960X vs Xeon E5-1650 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-3960X is faster than the Xeon E5-1650. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1650 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-3960X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-1650. Also, the Core i7-3960X has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-3960X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.