Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 8 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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$ 63.20

$ 42.57 significantly less expensive

$ 105.77

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5079 points

14% slightly better overall score

4438 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5205 points

8% slightly better gaming score

4819 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5069 points

17% slightly better multitasking score

4302 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5131 points

20% slightly better heavy workload score

4265 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

113.01 points

12% slightly higher Blender score

100.42 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5241 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

3964 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1004 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

549 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5384 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

3854 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1040 points

84% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

563 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz

2.8 GHz

7% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

3.6 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

90 W

27% slightly lower TDP

115 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

768 GiB

Identical

768 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

341st 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 E5-2640 v3 vs Xeon E5-2680 v2 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 is faster than the Xeon E5-2680 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2680 v2 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2680 v2 has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2640 v3. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2680 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2640 v3. Also, the Xeon E5-2680 v2 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-2640 v3 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2680 v2 CPU because of its 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 E5-2640 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.