Intel Xeon E5-2643 vs Intel Core i7 X 990

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 4 core CPU vs Intel 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2971 points

3089 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4108 points

4251 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2620 points

2707 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2542 points

2617 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

40.83 points

52.64 points

28% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

3.46 GHz

4% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

542nd of 1,089

527th 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 E5-2643 vs Core i7 X 990 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7 X 990 is faster than the Xeon E5-2643. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2643 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7 X 990 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2643 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2643. Our comparison shows that the Core i7 X 990 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2643.

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 E5-2643 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.