Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 vs Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3

Xeon E5-2680 v2 vs Xeon E5-2680 v3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2680 v3 beats the Xeon E5-2680 v2 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2680 v2 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has slightly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2680 v2 has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2680 v2. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2680 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2680 v3. Also, the Xeon E5-2680 v2 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-2680 v2 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2680 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 E5-2680 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.