Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2683 v4

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 12 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2683 v4

Price

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$ 223.79

$ 775.16 significantly less expensive

$ 998.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5940 points

0.52% slightly better overall score

5909 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5278 points

1% slightly better gaming score

5194 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6174 points

0.39% slightly better multitasking score

6150 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6288 points

0.91% slightly better heavy workload score

6231 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

163.08 points

200.55 points

22% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6648 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

6450 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

941 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

807 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6340 points

7020 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

996 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

933 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz

19% slightly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W

Identical

120 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

254th of 1,089

259th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2016 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2680 v3 vs Xeon E5-2683 v4 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2680 v3 beats the Xeon E5-2683 v4 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2683 v4 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2683 v4 has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2680 v3. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2683 v4. 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.