Intel Xeon E5-2670 v3 vs Intel Xeon X5680

Xeon E5-2670 v3 vs Xeon X5680 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2670 v3 beats the Xeon X5680 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon X5680 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2670 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Xeon X5680 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon X5680. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon X5680 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2670 v3. Also, the Xeon X5680 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-2670 v3 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5680 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. 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.