Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2643

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 8 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 63.20
$ 2093.80 significantly less expensive
$ 2157.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5079 points
70% significantly better overall score
2971 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5205 points
26% slightly better gaming score
4108 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5069 points
93% significantly better multitasking score
2620 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5131 points
101% significantly better heavy workload score
2542 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

113.01 points
176% significantly higher Blender score
40.83 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5241 points
81% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2888 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1004 points
55% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
646 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5384 points
157% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
2094 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1040 points
83% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
566 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
100% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
100% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
3.3 GHz
26% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz
3.5 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

90 W
44% significantly lower TDP
130 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

40
Identical
40

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
Identical
4

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

768 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory
384 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

341st of 1,089
542nd 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
Yes

Xeon E5-2640 v3 vs Xeon E5-2643 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 is faster than the Xeon E5-2643. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2643 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-2643. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E5-2643. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2643. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2643 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2640 v3. Also, the Xeon E5-2643 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-2640 v3 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2643 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 E5-2640 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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