Intel Xeon E5-1650 v4 vs Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2

Xeon E5-1650 v4 vs Xeon E5-2680 v2 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2680 v2 beats the Xeon E5-1650 v4 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1650 v4 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2680 v2 has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-1650 v4. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2680 v2 has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Xeon E5-1650 v4. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1650 v4. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1650 v4 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2680 v2. Also, the Xeon E5-1650 v4 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2680 v2 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1650 v4 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 E5-1650 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.