Intel Xeon E5-1680 v2 vs Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2

Compare Intel 8 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 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

5072 points

11% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5695 points

12% slightly better gaming score

5077 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4175 points

5065 points

21% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4067 points

5049 points

24% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

90.67 points

110.36 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3887 points

4379 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

625 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

564 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4201 points

4332 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

690 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

561 points

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

Identical

130 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

401st of 1,118

358th of 1,118

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v2 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-1680 v2 vs Xeon E5-2697 v2 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2697 v2 is faster than the Xeon E5-1680 v2. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1680 v2 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2697 v2 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. 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.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1680 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.