Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 14 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 149.95
$ 62.00 significantly less expensive
$ 211.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3203 points
6066 points
89% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4260 points
5717 points
34% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2869 points
6174 points
115% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2793 points
6198 points
121% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

75.06 points
195.63 points
160% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3929 points
6195 points
57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

901 points
988 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4121 points
6901 points
67% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

947 points
1027 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
14
133% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
28
133% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz
Identical
2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.2 GHz
3.3 GHz
3% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

85 W
41% slightly lower TDP
120 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

40
Identical
40

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
Identical
4

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

510th of 1,089
247th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family
Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August
2016 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600
DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
Yes

Xeon E5-2620 v3 vs Xeon E5-2680 v4 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2680 v4 is faster than the Xeon E5-2620 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2620 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2680 v4 has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2620 v3 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2620 v3. Both the Xeon E5-2620 v3 and Xeon E5-2680 v4 have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2680 v4 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-2620 v3 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2680 v4 CPU because of its 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 E5-2620 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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