Intel Xeon E5-2670 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2689

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

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Intel Xeon E5-2689

Price

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$ 2025.40

$ 109.95

$ 1915.45 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5014 points

19% slightly better overall score

4209 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5009 points

2% slightly better gaming score

4875 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5003 points

25% slightly better multitasking score

3976 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4989 points

27% slightly better heavy workload score

3900 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

145.84 points

85% significantly higher Blender score

78.82 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W

115 W

4% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

346th of 1,089

418th 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 E5-2689 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2689 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 significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Xeon E5-2689 that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2689. The Xeon E5-2689 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.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2670 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.