Intel Xeon E5-2630 vs Intel Xeon E5-2650

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

Benchmark Score
Other Benchmarks
Specifications
Comments (0)
Popular Comparisons

CPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare processors

Intel Xeon E5-2650

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 856.38

$ 103.11

$ 753.27 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2586 points

2944 points

13% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3592 points

2% slightly better gaming score

3493 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2259 points

2761 points

22% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2183 points

2710 points

24% slightly better heavy workload score

Free CPU Benchmark

Want to compare your processor against the Xeon E5-2630 and the Xeon E5-2650? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Download CPU Benchmark

Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

38.04 points

58.36 points

53% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3117 points

4002 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

510 points

515 points

0.98% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2380 points

2564 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

448 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

403 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz

15% slightly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

2.8 GHz

Identical

2.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

Identical

95 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

Identical

384 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

610th of 1,089

547th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2630 vs Xeon E5-2650 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2650 is faster than the Xeon E5-2630. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2630 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2650 has slightly more cores than the Xeon E5-2630. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2650 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Xeon E5-2630. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2630. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2630 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2650. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.