Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4 vs Intel Xeon E5-2678 v3

Xeon E5-2673 v4 vs Xeon E5-2678 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2673 v4 beats the Xeon E5-2678 v3 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2678 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2673 v4 has significantly more cores with 20 cores compared to the Xeon E5-2678 v3 that has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2678 v3. The Xeon E5-2678 v3 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2673 v4 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 E5-2673 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.