Intel Xeon E5-2640 vs Intel Xeon E3-1535M v6

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v6 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

Benchmark Score
Other Benchmarks
Specifications
Comments (0)
Popular Comparisons

CPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare processors

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2849 points

2904 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3820 points

4700 points

23% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2537 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

2376 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2462 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

2279 points

Free CPU Benchmark

Want to compare your processor against the Xeon E5-2640 and the Xeon E3-1535M v6? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Download CPU Benchmark

Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

47.31 points

58.91 points

24% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3360 points

4067 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

558 points

1275 points

128% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2265 points

3836 points

69% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

450 points

1254 points

178% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.50 GHz

3.10 GHz

23% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3 GHz

4.2 GHz

40% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

45 W

111% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

384 GiB

499% significantly more supported memory

64 GiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

15 MiB

87% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

560th of 1,089

551st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

Xeon E3 v6 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR4-2400

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2640 vs Xeon E3-1535M v6 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1535M v6 is faster than the Xeon E5-2640. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2640 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2640 has significantly more cores than the Xeon E3-1535M v6. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2640 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E3-1535M v6. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1535M v6. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1535M v6 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2640. Also, the Xeon E3-1535M v6 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1535M v6 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2640 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Xeon E5-2640 has more L2 cache than the Xeon E3-1535M v6. The Xeon E5-2640 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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