Intel Xeon E5-2678 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4

Compare Intel 12 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 16 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

8324 points

53% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5325 points

6186 points

16% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5414 points

9116 points

68% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5392 points

9598 points

78% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

164.10 points

224.42 points

36% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6701 points

8264 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1012 points

1062 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W

20% slightly lower TDP

145 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

303rd of 1,089

134th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February

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 E5-2697A v4 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 is faster than the Xeon E5-2678 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2678 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has slightly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Xeon E5-2678 v3 that has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2678 v3. A Xeon E5-2678 v3 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2697A v4 CPU because of its 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 E5-2678 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.