Intel Xeon E5-2640 vs Intel Xeon E5-2650 v3

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2650 v3

Price

The average price from our partner retailers

$ 65.00

$ 129.09 significantly less expensive

$ 194.09

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2849 points

4924 points

72% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3820 points

4566 points

19% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2537 points

5084 points

100% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2462 points

5215 points

111% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

47.31 points

112.68 points

138% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3360 points

5202 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

558 points

855 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2265 points

5366 points

136% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

450 points

899 points

99% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.50 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3 GHz

Identical

3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

10% slightly lower TDP

105 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

768 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

581st of 1,125

373rd of 1,125

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2640 vs Xeon E5-2650 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2650 v3 beats the Xeon E5-2640 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2640 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2650 v3 has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2640 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2640. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2640 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2650 v3. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. A Xeon E5-2640 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2650 v3 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. 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.