Intel Xeon E5-2640 vs Intel Core i7 X 980

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 6 core CPU vs Intel 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2849 points

2957 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3820 points

4037 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2537 points

2609 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2462 points

2522 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

47.31 points

52.64 points

11% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.50 GHz

3.37 GHz

34% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

12 MiB

700% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

560th of 1,089

543rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2640 vs Core i7 X 980 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7 X 980 performs better than the Xeon E5-2640. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2640 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7 X 980 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2640. In terms of cache, the Core i7 X 980 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E5-2640

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 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.