Intel Xeon E5-2670 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 12 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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Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2

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$ 2025.40

$ 105.77

$ 1919.63 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5014 points

12% slightly better overall score

4438 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5009 points

3% slightly better gaming score

4819 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5003 points

16% slightly better multitasking score

4302 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4989 points

16% slightly better heavy workload score

4265 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

145.84 points

45% significantly higher Blender score

100.42 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5840 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

3964 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

883 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

549 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5958 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

3854 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

941 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

563 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

20% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz

2.8 GHz

21% 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

120 W

115 W

4% 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

346th of 1,089

396th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Xeon E5 v2 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2013 August

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 E5-2670 v3 vs Xeon E5-2680 v2 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2680 v2 is faster than the Xeon E5-2670 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2670 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2670 v3 has slightly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Xeon E5-2680 v2 that has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2680 v2. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2680 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2670 v3. Also, the Xeon E5-2680 v2 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2680 v2 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2670 v3 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 E5-2670 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.