Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2

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

Benchmark Score
Other Benchmarks
Specifications
Comments (0)
Popular Comparisons

CPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare processors

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5940 points

13% slightly better overall score

5240 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5278 points

1% slightly better gaming score

5199 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6174 points

17% slightly better multitasking score

5238 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6288 points

20% slightly better heavy workload score

5217 points

Free CPU Benchmark

Want to compare your processor against the Xeon E5-2680 v3 and the Xeon E5-2696 v2? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Download CPU Benchmark

Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

163.08 points

58% significantly higher Blender score

103.15 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6648 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

4163 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

941 points

88% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

499 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6340 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4084 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

996 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

534 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

254th of 1,089

320th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

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 E5-2696 v2 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2680 v3 is faster than the Xeon E5-2696 v2. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads.

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 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.