Intel Xeon E5-2650 v2 vs Intel Xeon X5670

Xeon E5-2650 v2 vs Xeon X5670 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon X5670 beats the Xeon E5-2650 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2650 v2 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2650 v2 has slightly more cores than the Xeon X5670. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2650 v2 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Xeon X5670. It also has more threads than the Xeon X5670. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon X5670 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2650 v2. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2650 v2 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 E5-2650 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.