Intel Xeon E5-2650 v4 vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 12 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

4970 points

5240 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4831 points

5199 points

7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5013 points

5238 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5022 points

5217 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

147.11 points

42% slightly higher Blender score

103.15 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2679 points

4163 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

554 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

499 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3070 points

4084 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

661 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

534 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

353rd of 1,089

320th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February

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 v4 vs Xeon E5-2696 v2 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2696 v2 performs better than the Xeon E5-2650 v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2650 v4 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads.

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 E5-2650 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.