Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4 vs Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4

Xeon E5-2673 v4 vs Xeon E5-2680 v4 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2673 v4 beats the Xeon E5-2680 v4 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2680 v4 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2673 v4 has many more cores with 20 cores compared to the Xeon E5-2680 v4 that has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2680 v4. The Xeon E5-2680 v4 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.

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 E5-2673 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.