Intel Xeon E5-1650 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2650 v3

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2650 v3

Price

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$ 1356.00

$ 194.09

$ 1161.91 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3769 points

4924 points

30% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5233 points

14% slightly better gaming score

4566 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3308 points

5084 points

53% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3206 points

5215 points

62% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

90.40 points

112.68 points

24% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5154 points

5202 points

0.93% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1099 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

855 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5477 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

5366 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1201 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

899 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

52% significantly higher clock speed

2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

26% slightly higher turbo speed

3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W

105 W

33% slightly lower TDP

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

768 GiB

Identical

768 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

453rd of 1,089

355th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1333

DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-1650 v3 vs Xeon E5-2650 v3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2650 v3 is faster than the Xeon E5-1650 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1650 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2650 v3 has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-1650 v3. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2650 v3 has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Xeon E5-1650 v3. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1650 v3. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1650 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2650 v3. Also, the Xeon E5-1650 v3 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2650 v3 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1650 v3 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. 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 E5-1650 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.