Intel Xeon E5-2667 v2 vs Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 8 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3

Price

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$ 249.95

$ 223.79

$ 26.16 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4456 points

5940 points

33% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5563 points

5% slightly better gaming score

5278 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4086 points

6174 points

51% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3980 points

6288 points

57% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

90.62 points

163.08 points

79% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4156 points

6648 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

655 points

941 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3992 points

6340 points

58% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

647 points

996 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

32% slightly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

21% slightly higher turbo speed

3.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

120 W

8% slightly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

768 GiB

Identical

768 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

392nd of 1,089

254th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v2 Family

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2667 v2 vs Xeon E5-2680 v3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2680 v3 is faster than the Xeon E5-2667 v2. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2667 v2 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-2667 v2. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Xeon E5-2667 v2. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2667 v2. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2667 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2680 v3. Also, the Xeon E5-2667 v2 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2680 v3 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2667 v2 thanks to a 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 E5-2667 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.