Intel Core i7-3960X vs Intel Xeon X5680

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

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Intel Xeon X5680

Price

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$ 250.00

$ 147.98

$ 102.02 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3693 points

4570 points

23% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4998 points

10% slightly better gaming score

4503 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3261 points

4578 points

40% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3155 points

4568 points

44% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

69.62 points

23% slightly higher Blender score

56.43 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3363 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2584 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

665 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

535 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3209 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2476 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

661 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

532 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

3.33 GHz

0.79% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

Identical

130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

33% slightly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

288 GiB

350% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

464th of 1,089

383rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 November

2010 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 X5680 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon X5680 is faster than the Core i7-3960X. Despite this, the Core i7-3960X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon X5680 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3960X. Despite this, 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.

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 i7-3960X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.