Intel Xeon E5-2620 vs Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3

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

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Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3

Price

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$ 207.15

$ 189.95

$ 17.20 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2694 points

5393 points

100% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3212 points

4919 points

53% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2534 points

5546 points

118% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2503 points

5592 points

123% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

38.93 points

138.77 points

256% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2793 points

8196 points

193% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points

703 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1902 points

6085 points

219% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

390 points

833 points

113% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

133% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

133% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz

Identical

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

2.5 GHz

3 GHz

20% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

26% slightly lower TDP

120 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

384 GiB

768 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

591st of 1,089

305th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2620 vs Xeon E5-2683 v3 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2683 v3 is faster than the Xeon E5-2620. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2620 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2683 v3 has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2620 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2620. Both the Xeon E5-2620 and Xeon E5-2683 v3 have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2683 v3 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-2620 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2683 v3 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 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.