Intel Xeon E5-2640 vs Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2

Price

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$ 65.00

$ 30.00

$ 35.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2849 points

24% slightly better overall score

2286 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3820 points

6% slightly better gaming score

3603 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2537 points

33% slightly better multitasking score

1895 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2462 points

35% slightly better heavy workload score

1822 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

47.31 points

49.31 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3360 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2305 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

558 points

633 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2265 points

2380 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

450 points

645 points

43% 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

3.7 GHz

47% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3 GHz

3.9 GHz

30% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

36% slightly lower TDP

130 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

384 GiB

49% significantly more supported memory

256 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

560th of 1,089

665th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

Xeon E5 v2 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

2013 August

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 Xeon E5-1620 v2 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2640 is faster than the Xeon E5-1620 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1620 v2 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2640 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1620 v2. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2640. Also, the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-2640 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1620 v2 CPU because of its slightly 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 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.