Intel Xeon E5-2637 v3 vs Intel Xeon X5675

Xeon E5-2637 v3 vs Xeon X5675 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2637 v3 beats the Xeon X5675 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X5675 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon X5675 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2637 v3 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2637 v3. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2637 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon X5675. Also, the Xeon E5-2637 v3 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon X5675 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.

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 E5-2637 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.