Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2687W

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 8 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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Intel Xeon E5-2687W

Price

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$ 459.00

$ 540.00 significantly less expensive

$ 999.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5169 points

25% slightly better overall score

4113 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4558 points

4879 points

7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5431 points

40% slightly better multitasking score

3854 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5595 points

48% significantly better heavy workload score

3775 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

106.21 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

87.34 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4845 points

5319 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

913 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

716 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5055 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

3443 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

944 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

592 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

3.10 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

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

330th 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

Xeon E5-2630 v3 vs Xeon E5-2687W comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2630 v3 beats the Xeon E5-2687W in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2687W has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2687W has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2630 v3. Also, the Xeon E5-2687W has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-2630 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 E5-2630 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.