Intel Xeon E5-2640 vs Intel Xeon E5-2670

Xeon E5-2640 vs Xeon E5-2670 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2640 beats the Xeon E5-2670 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2670 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2670 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2640 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2640. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2670 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2640. Also, the Xeon E5-2670 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-2640 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2670 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.