Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2

Xeon E5-2680 v2 vs Xeon E5-2696 v2 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2680 v2 beats the Xeon E5-2696 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2696 v2 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2696 v2 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.

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.