Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 vs Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 10 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 255.14
$ 105.77
$ 149.37 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4385 points
4438 points
1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4645 points
4819 points
3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4290 points
4302 points
0.28% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4267 points
0.05% slightly better heavy workload score
4265 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

94.52 points
100.42 points
6% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3460 points
3964 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

496 points
549 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3408 points
3854 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

497 points
563 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

10
Identical
10

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20
Identical
20

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz
2.8 GHz
11% 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

115 W
Identical
115 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

40
Identical
40

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
Identical
4

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

768 GiB
Identical
768 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

402nd of 1,089
396th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v2 Family
Xeon E5 v2 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August
2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
Yes

Xeon E5-2670 v2 vs Xeon E5-2680 v2 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2680 v2 beats the Xeon E5-2670 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2670 v2 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2680 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2670 v2. Also, the Xeon E5-2680 v2 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2670 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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