Intel Xeon E5-2650 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 10 core CPU vs Intel 12 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

4924 points

5240 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4566 points

5199 points

13% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5084 points

5238 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5215 points

5217 points

0.04% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

112.68 points

9% slightly higher Blender score

103.15 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5202 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

4163 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

855 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

499 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5366 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4084 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

899 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

534 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

20% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20% slightly more threads

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

355th of 1,089

320th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2650 v3 vs Xeon E5-2696 v2 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 is faster than the Xeon E5-2650 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2650 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has slightly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Xeon E5-2650 v3 that has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2650 v3.

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 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.