Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 vs Intel Xeon X5675

Xeon E5-2676 v3 vs Xeon X5675 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon X5675 is faster than the Xeon E5-2676 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2676 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2676 v3 has significantly more cores than the Xeon X5675. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2676 v3 has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Xeon X5675. It also has more threads than the Xeon X5675. The Xeon X5675 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2676 v3 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 E5-2676 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.