Intel Xeon E5-2640 vs Intel Xeon E5-2650

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 6 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 E5-2650

Price

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$ 65.00

$ 38.11 significantly less expensive

$ 103.11

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2849 points

2944 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3820 points

9% slightly better gaming score

3493 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2537 points

2761 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2462 points

2710 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

47.31 points

58.36 points

23% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3360 points

4002 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

558 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

515 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2265 points

2564 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

450 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

403 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

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

7% slightly higher turbo speed

2.8 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

547th 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 E5-2650 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2650 is faster than the Xeon E5-2640. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2640 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2650 has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Xeon E5-2640 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2640. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2640 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2650. 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2640 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.