Intel Pentium G2020 vs Intel Xeon E5-2687W

Compare Intel Pentium G Series 2 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2687W

Price

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$ 34.99

$ 964.01 significantly less expensive

$ 999.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

934 points

4113 points

340% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2034 points

4879 points

139% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

666 points

3854 points

478% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

640 points

3775 points

489% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

9.25 points

87.34 points

844% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

802 points

5319 points

563% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

474 points

716 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

817 points

3443 points

321% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

476 points

592 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

300% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

700% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz

3.10 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

55 W

172% significantly lower TDP

150 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

256 GiB

700% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

972nd of 1,089

426th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium G Series

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 February

2012 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Pentium G2020 vs Xeon E5-2687W comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2687W beats the Pentium G2020 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium G2020 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2687W has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Pentium G2020 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium G2020. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2687W has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium G2020. A Pentium G2020 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2687W CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the Pentium G2020 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.