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

Xeon E5-1650 vs Xeon E5-2680 v4 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2680 v4 beats the Xeon E5-1650 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1650 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2680 v4 has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-1650. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2680 v4 has 14 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Xeon E5-1650. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1650. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-1650 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2680 v4. Also, the Xeon E5-1650 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2680 v4 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.

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