Intel Xeon E5-1650 v4 vs Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 14 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4288 points
5393 points
25% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6056 points
23% slightly better gaming score
4919 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3725 points
5546 points
48% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3606 points
5592 points
55% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

94.25 points
138.77 points
47% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5425 points
8196 points
51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1136 points
61% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
703 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5449 points
6085 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1187 points
42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
833 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
14
133% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
28
133% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
79% significantly higher clock speed
2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
33% slightly higher turbo speed
3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W
120 W
16% slightly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

40
Identical
40

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
Identical
4

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

410th of 1,089
305th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family
Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May
2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600
DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
Yes

Xeon E5-1650 v4 vs Xeon E5-2683 v3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2683 v3 is faster than the Xeon E5-1650 v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1650 v4 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2683 v3 has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Xeon E5-1650 v4 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1650 v4. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-1650 v4 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2683 v3. Also, the Xeon E5-1650 v4 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2683 v3 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.

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 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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