Intel Xeon E5-2420 vs Intel Xeon X5650

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon X5650

Price

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$ 355.55

$ 46.96

$ 308.59 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2140 points

2207 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2978 points

3219 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1875 points

1889 points

0.75% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1814 points

1825 points

0.61% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

36.28 points

44.76 points

23% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2643 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2315 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points

0.44% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

451 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1814 points

2241 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

378 points

445 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.9 GHz

2.66 GHz

40% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

2.4 GHz

3.06 GHz

27% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

Identical

95 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

384 GiB

33% slightly more supported memory

288 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

697th of 1,089

682nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

2010 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 E5-2420 vs Xeon X5650 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon X5650 performs better than the Xeon E5-2420. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2420 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon X5650 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2420. Also, the Xeon X5650 has a slightly higher turbo speed. 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 E5-2420 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.