Intel Xeon E5-1650 vs Intel Xeon E5-2640 v4

Xeon E5-1650 vs Xeon E5-2640 v4 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2640 v4 beats the Xeon E5-1650 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1650 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2640 v4 has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-1650. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2640 v4 has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Xeon E5-1650. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1650. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-1650 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2640 v4. Also, the Xeon E5-1650 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2640 v4 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1650 thanks to a significantly 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 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.