Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 vs Intel Core i9-14900K

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 12 core CPU vs Intel Core i9 (14th gen) 24 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i9-14900K

Price

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$ 223.79

$ 215.20 significantly less expensive

$ 438.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5940 points

16106 points

171% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5278 points

15771 points

198% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6174 points

16300 points

164% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6288 points

16541 points

163% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

163.08 points

506.50 points

210% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6340 points

20147 points

217% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

996 points

3053 points

206% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz

3.2 GHz

28% slightly higher clock speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

100% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

768 GiB

300% significantly more supported memory

192 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

254th of 1,089

16th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Core i9 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR5-5600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2680 v3 vs Core i9-14900K comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-14900K is faster than the Xeon E5-2680 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2680 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-14900K has significantly more cores with 24 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2680 v3. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-14900K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2680 v3.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.