Intel Xeon E5-2650 vs Intel Xeon E3-1505M v6

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 8 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v6 Family 4 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

2944 points

3071 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3493 points

4949 points

41% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2761 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

2514 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2710 points

12% slightly better heavy workload score

2413 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

58.36 points

58.48 points

0.20% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4002 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

3744 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

515 points

1220 points

136% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2564 points

3576 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

403 points

1243 points

208% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz

3 GHz

49% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

2.8 GHz

4 GHz

42% much higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

45 W

111% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

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

529th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

Xeon E3 v6 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR4-2400

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2650 vs Xeon E3-1505M v6 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1505M v6 is faster than the Xeon E5-2650. 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 E3-1505M v6. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2650 has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E3-1505M v6. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1505M v6. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1505M v6 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2650. Also, the Xeon E3-1505M v6 has a much higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1505M v6 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2650 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. 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 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.