Intel Xeon E5-2678 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3

Compare Intel 12 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 14 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
0.30% slightly better overall score
5393 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5325 points
8% slightly better gaming score
4919 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5414 points
5546 points
2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5392 points
5592 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

164.10 points
18% slightly higher Blender score
138.77 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6377 points
8196 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

967 points
37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
703 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6701 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
6085 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1012 points
21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
833 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
14
16% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
28
16% slightly more threads

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
305th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

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Yes

Xeon E5-2678 v3 vs Xeon E5-2683 v3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2678 v3 is faster than the Xeon E5-2683 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2683 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2683 v3 has slightly more cores than the Xeon E5-2678 v3. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2683 v3 has 14 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Xeon E5-2678 v3. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2678 v3. 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.

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 E5-2678 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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