Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3

Xeon E5-2620 v3 vs Xeon E5-2676 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2676 v3 beats the Xeon E5-2620 v3 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2620 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2676 v3 has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-2620 v3. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2676 v3 has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Xeon E5-2620 v3. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2620 v3. A Xeon E5-2620 v3 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2676 v3 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. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2620 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.