Intel Xeon E5-1650 v4 vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2

Xeon E5-1650 v4 vs Xeon E5-2696 v2 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1650 v4 beats the Xeon E5-2696 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2696 v2 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-1650 v4. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Xeon E5-1650 v4. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1650 v4.

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.