Intel Xeon E5-1650 v2 vs Intel Xeon X5680

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 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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$ 229.95

$ 147.98

$ 81.97 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3665 points

4570 points

24% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5028 points

11% slightly better gaming score

4503 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3232 points

4578 points

41% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3132 points

4568 points

45% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

72.62 points

28% slightly higher Blender score

56.43 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3177 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2584 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

637 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

535 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3309 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2476 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

672 points

26% 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

3.5 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

3.33 GHz

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

256 GiB

288 GiB

12% slightly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

467th of 1,089

383rd 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 E5-1650 v2 vs Xeon X5680 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon X5680 is faster than the Xeon E5-1650 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1650 v2 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-1650 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon X5680. Also, the Xeon E5-1650 v2 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 Xeon E5-1650 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.