Intel Xeon E5-2678 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2698 v3

Compare Intel 12 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 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

6109 points

12% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5325 points

5454 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5414 points

6350 points

17% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5392 points

6447 points

19% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

164.10 points

190.75 points

16% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6377 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

6221 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

967 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

950 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6701 points

7350 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1012 points

1043 points

3% 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

12% slightly lower TDP

135 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

303rd of 1,089

245th 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 E5-2698 v3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2678 v3 beats the Xeon E5-2698 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2698 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2698 v3 has slightly more cores than the Xeon E5-2678 v3. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2698 v3 has 16 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Xeon E5-2678 v3. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2678 v3. A Xeon E5-2678 v3 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2698 v3 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.