Intel Xeon E5-2650 vs Intel Xeon E5-2689

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

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Intel Xeon E5-2689

Price

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$ 103.11

$ 6.84 slightly less expensive

$ 109.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2944 points

4209 points

42% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3493 points

4875 points

39% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2761 points

3976 points

44% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2710 points

3900 points

43% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

58.36 points

78.82 points

35% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

21% slightly lower TDP

115 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

547th of 1,089

418th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2650 vs Xeon E5-2689 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2689 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.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. A Xeon E5-2650 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2689 CPU because of its slightly 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.