Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2 vs Intel Xeon X5650

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 4 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 X5650

Price

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$ 30.00

$ 16.96 significantly less expensive

$ 46.96

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2286 points

3% slightly better overall score

2207 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3603 points

11% slightly better gaming score

3219 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1895 points

0.32% slightly better multitasking score

1889 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1822 points

1825 points

0.16% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

49.31 points

10% slightly higher Blender score

44.76 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2305 points

2315 points

0.43% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

633 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

451 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2380 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2241 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

645 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

445 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

3.7 GHz

39% slightly higher clock speed

2.66 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

27% slightly higher turbo speed

3.06 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

95 W

36% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

33% slightly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

256 GiB

288 GiB

12% slightly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

665th of 1,089

682nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v2 Family

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August

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

Xeon E5-1620 v2 vs Xeon X5650 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-1620 v2 is faster than the Xeon X5650. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X5650 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon X5650 has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-1620 v2. Indeed, the Xeon X5650 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E5-1620 v2. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1620 v2. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon X5650. Also, the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon X5650 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1620 v2 thanks to a slightly 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. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.