Intel Xeon E5-2673 v3 vs Intel Xeon X5680

Xeon E5-2673 v3 vs Xeon X5680 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2673 v3 is faster than the Xeon X5680. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X5680 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2673 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Xeon X5680 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon X5680. A Xeon E5-2673 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.

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 E5-2673 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.