Intel Xeon E5-2640 vs Intel Xeon W3680

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

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Intel Xeon W3680

Price

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$ 65.00

$ 114.73 significantly less expensive

$ 179.73

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2849 points

2952 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3820 points

4047 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2537 points

2596 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2462 points

2512 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

47.31 points

68.56 points

44% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3360 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2622 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

558 points

564 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2265 points

2543 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

450 points

550 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

3.33 GHz

33% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3 GHz

3.6 GHz

20% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

36% slightly lower TDP

130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

33% slightly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

384 GiB

1500% significantly more supported memory

24 GiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

12 MiB

700% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

560th of 1,089

544th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

2010 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 W3680 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon W3680 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.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon W3680 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2640. Also, the Xeon W3680 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-2640 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon W3680 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Xeon W3680 has more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2640

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.