Intel Xeon E5-2670 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 12 core CPU vs Intel 18 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

6495 points

29% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5009 points

5724 points

14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5003 points

6803 points

35% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4989 points

6991 points

40% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

145.84 points

231.70 points

58% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5840 points

7392 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

883 points

1060 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5958 points

8186 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

941 points

1134 points

20% slightly 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

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W

20% slightly lower TDP

145 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

346th of 1,089

221st 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 E5-2696 v3 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-2670 v3. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has 18 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Xeon E5-2670 v3. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2670 v3. A Xeon E5-2670 v3 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2696 v3 CPU because of its 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.