Intel Xeon E5-2637 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2

Price

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$ 229.95

$ 105.77

$ 124.18 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4611 points

3% slightly better overall score

4438 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5571 points

15% slightly better gaming score

4819 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4299 points

4302 points

0.07% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4207 points

4265 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4013 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

3964 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

871 points

58% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

549 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4512 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

3854 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1142 points

102% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

563 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

150% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

150% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

25% slightly higher clock speed

2.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

135 W

115 W

17% slightly lower TDP

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

Identical

768 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

379th of 1,089

396th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Xeon E5 v2 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2013 August

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 E5-2637 v3 vs Xeon E5-2680 v2 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2637 v3 beats the Xeon E5-2680 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2680 v2 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2680 v2 has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-2637 v3. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2680 v2 has 10 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E5-2637 v3. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2637 v3. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2637 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2680 v2. Also, the Xeon E5-2637 v3 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2680 v2 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2637 v3 thanks to a 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 E5-2637 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.