Intel Xeon E5-2650 vs Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 8 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v5 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 103.11
$ 45.86 significantly less expensive
$ 148.98

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2944 points
3020 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3493 points
4906 points
40% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2761 points
12% slightly better multitasking score
2462 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2710 points
14% slightly better heavy workload score
2360 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

58.36 points
67.47 points
15% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4002 points
4037 points
0.87% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

515 points
1268 points
146% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2564 points
4194 points
63% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

403 points
1312 points
225% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
100% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
100% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz
3.50 GHz
75% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

2.8 GHz
3.9 GHz
39% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
80 W
18% slightly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

40
150% significantly more pcie lanes
16

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

384 GiB
499% significantly more supported memory
64 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

547th of 1,089
536th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family
Xeon E3 v5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February
2015 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR4-1866

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
Yes

Xeon E5-2650 vs Xeon E3-1245 v5 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1245 v5 beats the Xeon E5-2650 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2650 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2650 has significantly more cores than the Xeon E3-1245 v5. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2650 has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E3-1245 v5. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1245 v5. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1245 v5 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2650. Also, the Xeon E3-1245 v5 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1245 v5 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2650 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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

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