Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2690

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

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Intel Xeon E5-2690

Price

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$ 63.20

$ 78.41 significantly less expensive

$ 141.61

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5079 points

19% slightly better overall score

4263 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5205 points

3% slightly better gaming score

5047 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5069 points

26% slightly better multitasking score

3997 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5131 points

30% slightly better heavy workload score

3919 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

113.01 points

53% significantly higher Blender score

73.79 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5241 points

66% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

3154 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1004 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

528 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5384 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

3487 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1040 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

586 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz

2.9 GHz

11% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

3.8 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

90 W

49% significantly lower TDP

135 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

100% significantly more supported memory

384 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

341st of 1,089

413th 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

Xeon E5-2640 v3 vs Xeon E5-2690 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 is faster than the Xeon E5-2690. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2690 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2690 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2640 v3. Also, the Xeon E5-2690 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-2640 v3 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2690 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.