Intel Xeon E5-2678 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3

Compare Intel 12 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 12 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

5409 points

5940 points

9% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5325 points

0.89% slightly better gaming score

5278 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5414 points

6174 points

14% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5392 points

6288 points

16% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

164.10 points

0.63% slightly higher Blender score

163.08 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6377 points

6648 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

967 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

941 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6701 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

6340 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1012 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

996 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W

Identical

120 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

303rd of 1,089

254th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2678 v3 vs Xeon E5-2680 v3 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2678 v3 performs better than the Xeon E5-2680 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2680 v3 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 E5-2678 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.