Intel Xeon E5-2665 vs Intel Xeon X5680

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 8 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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$ 106.93

$ 41.05 significantly less expensive

$ 147.98

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5548 points

21% slightly better overall score

4570 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4569 points

1% slightly better gaming score

4503 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5916 points

29% slightly better multitasking score

4578 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6106 points

33% slightly better heavy workload score

4568 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

73.09 points

29% slightly higher Blender score

56.43 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4404 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2584 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

573 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

535 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2832 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2476 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

452 points

532 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz

3.33 GHz

38% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.1 GHz

3.6 GHz

16% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

115 W

13% 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

384 GiB

33% slightly more supported memory

288 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

288th of 1,089

383rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

2010 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 E5-2665 vs Xeon X5680 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon X5680 beats the Xeon E5-2665 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2665 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2665 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Xeon X5680 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon X5680. Our comparison shows that the Xeon X5680 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2665. Also, the Xeon X5680 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-2665 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.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2665 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.