Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3 vs Intel Xeon X5680

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

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Intel Xeon X5680

Price

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$ 149.95

$ 147.98

$ 1.97 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3203 points

4570 points

42% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4260 points

4503 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2869 points

4578 points

59% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2793 points

4568 points

63% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

75.06 points

33% slightly higher Blender score

56.43 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3929 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2584 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

901 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

535 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4121 points

66% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2476 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

947 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

532 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz

3.33 GHz

38% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.2 GHz

3.6 GHz

12% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

85 W

52% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

33% slightly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

768 GiB

166% significantly more supported memory

288 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

510th of 1,089

383rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2010 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 E5-2620 v3 vs Xeon X5680 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon X5680 performs better than the Xeon E5-2620 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2620 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon X5680 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2620 v3. Also, the Xeon X5680 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-2620 v3 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5680 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.