Intel Xeon E5-2643 vs Intel Xeon X5670

Xeon E5-2643 vs Xeon X5670 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon X5670 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 Xeon X5670 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2643 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon X5670. Also, the Xeon E5-2643 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon X5670 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2643 thanks to a 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 E5-2643 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.