Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2687W

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 149.95
$ 849.05 significantly less expensive
$ 999.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3203 points
4113 points
28% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4260 points
4879 points
14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2869 points
3854 points
34% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2793 points
3775 points
35% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

75.06 points
87.34 points
16% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3929 points
5319 points
35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

901 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
716 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4121 points
19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
3443 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

947 points
59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
592 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz
3.10 GHz
29% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.2 GHz
3.8 GHz
18% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

85 W
76% significantly lower TDP
150 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

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

768 GiB
200% significantly more supported memory
256 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

510th of 1,089
426th 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
Yes

Xeon E5-2620 v3 vs Xeon E5-2687W benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2687W 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2687W has slightly more cores than the Xeon E5-2620 v3. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2687W has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Xeon E5-2620 v3. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2620 v3. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2687W has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2620 v3. Also, the Xeon E5-2687W has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-2620 v3 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2687W CPU because of its significantly 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.

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