Intel Xeon E5-1620 vs Intel Xeon E5-1650

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 4 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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$ 153.08

$ 66.00

$ 87.08 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2735 points

3446 points

25% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4274 points

4699 points

9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2280 points

3046 points

33% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2192 points

2950 points

34% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

40.70 points

55.26 points

35% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2284 points

3081 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

592 points

640 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2244 points

2889 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

611 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

595 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

3.6 GHz

12% slightly higher clock speed

3.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

Identical

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

375 GiB

46% significantly more supported memory

256 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

582nd of 1,089

490th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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

Xeon E5-1620 vs Xeon E5-1650 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-1650 is faster than the Xeon E5-1620. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1620 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-1650 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Xeon E5-1620 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1620. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-1620 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-1650. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. 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 Xeon E5-1620 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.