Intel Xeon E5-2630 v4 vs Intel Xeon X5680

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 10 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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$ 249.95

$ 147.98

$ 101.97 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3728 points

4570 points

22% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4090 points

4503 points

10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3611 points

4578 points

26% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3586 points

4568 points

27% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.88 points

117% significantly higher Blender score

56.43 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5341 points

106% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2584 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

923 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

535 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5264 points

112% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2476 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

963 points

81% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

532 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.2 GHz

3.33 GHz

51% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.1 GHz

3.6 GHz

16% 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

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

458th of 1,089

383rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February

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 E5-2630 v4 vs Xeon X5680 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon X5680 performs better than the Xeon E5-2630 v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2630 v4 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2630 v4 has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Xeon X5680 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon X5680. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon X5680 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2630 v4. Also, the Xeon X5680 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-2630 v4 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.

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 E5-2630 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.