Intel Xeon E5-2470 v2 vs Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3

Xeon E5-2470 v2 vs Xeon E5-2630 v3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2630 v3 beats the Xeon E5-2470 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2470 v2 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2470 v2 has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Xeon E5-2630 v3 that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2630 v3. In terms of clock speed, the Xeon E5-2470 v2 and Xeon E5-2630 v3 are identical in this regard. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Xeon E5-2630 v3 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2470 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 E5-2470 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.