Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3 vs Intel Xeon X5680

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 10 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon X5680

Price

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$ 189.95

$ 147.98

$ 41.97 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3996 points

4570 points

14% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4213 points

4503 points

6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3900 points

4578 points

17% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3849 points

4568 points

18% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

129.03 points

128% significantly higher Blender score

56.43 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5920 points

129% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2584 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

975 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

535 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5959 points

140% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2476 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

985 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

532 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz

3.33 GHz

27% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz

3.6 GHz

9% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

23% slightly lower TDP

130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

33% slightly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

768 GiB

166% significantly more supported memory

288 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

436th of 1,089

383rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2010 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2660 v3 vs Xeon X5680 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon X5680 beats the Xeon E5-2660 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2660 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2660 v3 has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Xeon X5680 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon X5680. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon X5680 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2660 v3. Also, the Xeon X5680 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-2660 v3 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5680 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 E5-2660 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.