Intel Xeon E5-1680 v2 vs Intel Xeon E5-2687W

Xeon E5-1680 v2 vs Xeon E5-2687W specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1680 v2 beats the Xeon E5-2687W in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2687W has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. A Xeon E5-1680 v2 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2687W CPU because of its 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 E5-1680 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.