Intel Xeon E5-2678 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2

Compare Intel 12 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v2 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

6% slightly better overall score

5072 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5325 points

4% slightly better gaming score

5077 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5414 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

5065 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5392 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

5049 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

164.10 points

48% significantly higher Blender score

110.36 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6377 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

4379 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

967 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

564 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6701 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4332 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1012 points

80% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

561 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

8% slightly lower TDP

130 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

303rd of 1,089

343rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v2 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2678 v3 vs Xeon E5-2697 v2 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2678 v3 is faster than the Xeon E5-2697 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2697 v2 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. A Xeon E5-2678 v3 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2697 v2 CPU because of its 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 E5-2678 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.