Intel Xeon E5-1650 vs Intel Xeon E5-2650 v2

Xeon E5-1650 vs Xeon E5-2650 v2 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2650 v2 beats the Xeon E5-1650 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1650 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2650 v2 has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Xeon E5-1650 that has 6 cores. 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 E5-2650 v2. Also, the Xeon E5-1650 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2650 v2 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1650 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 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.