Intel Xeon E5-1650 vs Intel Xeon X5680

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

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Intel Xeon X5680

Price

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$ 66.00

$ 81.98 significantly less expensive

$ 147.98

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3446 points

4570 points

32% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4699 points

4% slightly better gaming score

4503 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3046 points

4578 points

50% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2950 points

4568 points

54% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

55.26 points

56.43 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3081 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2584 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

640 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

535 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2889 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2476 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

595 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

532 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

3.33 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

Identical

130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

33% slightly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

256 GiB

288 GiB

12% slightly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

490th of 1,089

383rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

2010 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-1650 vs Xeon X5680 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon X5680 is faster than the Xeon E5-1650. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1650 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon X5680 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-1650. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1650 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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.