Intel Xeon E5-1680 v2 vs Intel Xeon X5675

Compare Intel 8 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 6 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

2% slightly better overall score

4455 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5695 points

29% slightly better gaming score

4385 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4175 points

4466 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4067 points

4450 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

90.67 points

68% significantly higher Blender score

53.89 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3887 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2477 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

625 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

503 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4201 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2434 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

690 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

503 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

95 W

36% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

384th of 1,089

393rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 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 E5-1680 v2 vs Xeon X5675 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon X5675 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 E5-1680 v2 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Xeon X5675 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon X5675. The Xeon X5675 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.