Intel Xeon E5-2670 vs Intel Xeon E5-620

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 8 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 4 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

2679 points

16% slightly better overall score

2291 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3763 points

28% slightly better gaming score

2929 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2311 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

2085 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2218 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

2031 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

69.61 points

170% significantly higher Blender score

25.76 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3052 points

105% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1482 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

505 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

366 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

2.53 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz

24% slightly higher turbo speed

2.66 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

115 W

80 W

43% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

33% slightly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

384 GiB

33% slightly more supported memory

288 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

596th of 1,089

662nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

2010 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2670 vs Xeon E5-620 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-620 is faster than the Xeon E5-2670. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2670 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2670 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Xeon E5-620 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-620. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2670 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-620. Also, the Xeon E5-2670 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-620 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2670 thanks to a significantly 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 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.