Intel Xeon E5-1680 v2 vs Intel Xeon E5-2678 v3

Compare Intel 8 core CPU vs Intel 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4559 points

5409 points

18% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5695 points

6% slightly better gaming score

5325 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4175 points

5414 points

29% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4067 points

5392 points

32% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

90.67 points

164.10 points

80% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3887 points

6377 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

625 points

967 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4201 points

6701 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

690 points

1012 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

120 W

8% slightly lower TDP

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Ranking in the hardwareDB database

384th of 1,089

303rd of 1,089

Xeon E5-1680 v2 vs Xeon E5-2678 v3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2678 v3 is faster than the Xeon E5-1680 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1680 v2 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2678 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Xeon E5-1680 v2 has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1680 v2. The Xeon E5-2678 v3 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1680 v2 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 E5-1680 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.