Intel Xeon E5-2670 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2678 v3

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5014 points

5409 points

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5009 points

5325 points

6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5003 points

5414 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4989 points

5392 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

145.84 points

164.10 points

12% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5840 points

6377 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

883 points

967 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5958 points

6701 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

941 points

1012 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) 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

120 W

Identical

120 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

346th of 1,089

303rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2670 v3 vs Xeon E5-2678 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2678 v3 beats the Xeon E5-2670 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2670 v3 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. 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 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.