Intel Xeon E5-2609 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2620

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2620

Price

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$ 198.95

$ 8.20 slightly less expensive

$ 207.15

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1767 points

2694 points

52% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2784 points

3212 points

15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1446 points

2534 points

75% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1388 points

2503 points

80% significantly better heavy workload score

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Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2526 points

2793 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

461 points

0.44% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

459 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2743 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1902 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

617 points

58% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

390 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.9 GHz

2 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

80 W

18% slightly lower TDP

95 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

768 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

384 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

763rd of 1,089

591st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2012 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2609 v3 vs Xeon E5-2620 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2620 is faster than the Xeon E5-2609 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2609 v3 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Xeon E5-2620 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2620 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2609 v3. A Xeon E5-2609 v3 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2620 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. For instance, the Xeon E5-2609 v3 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.