Intel Xeon E5-1680 v2 vs Intel Xeon E5-2643 v2

Xeon E5-1680 v2 vs Xeon E5-2643 v2 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2643 v2 beats the Xeon E5-1680 v2 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1680 v2 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-1680 v2 has slightly more cores than the Xeon E5-2643 v2. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1680 v2 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Xeon E5-2643 v2. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2643 v2. 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 E5-1680 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.