Intel Xeon E5-2640 vs Intel Xeon E5-2620

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

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Intel Xeon E5-2620

Price

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$ 65.00

$ 142.15 significantly less expensive

$ 207.15

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2849 points

5% slightly better overall score

2694 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3820 points

18% slightly better gaming score

3212 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2537 points

0.12% slightly better multitasking score

2534 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2462 points

2503 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

47.31 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

38.93 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3360 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2793 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

558 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

459 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2265 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1902 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

450 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

390 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

2.50 GHz

25% slightly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3 GHz

20% slightly higher turbo speed

2.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

Identical

95 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

Identical

384 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

560th of 1,089

591st 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 Xeon E5-2620 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2620 performs better than the Xeon E5-2640. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2640 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 Xeon E5-2640 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2620. Also, the Xeon E5-2640 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.