Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3

Xeon E5-2680 v3 vs Xeon E5-2683 v3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2683 v3 beats the Xeon E5-2680 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2680 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2683 v3 has slightly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Xeon E5-2680 v3 that has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2680 v3. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2683 v3. Also, the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.