Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 14 core CPU vs Intel 18 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6066 points

6495 points

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5717 points

5724 points

0.12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6174 points

6803 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6198 points

6991 points

12% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

195.63 points

231.70 points

18% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6195 points

7392 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

988 points

1060 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6901 points

8186 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1027 points

1134 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

28% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

28% slightly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W

20% slightly lower TDP

145 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

247th of 1,089

221st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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 v4 vs Xeon E5-2696 v3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 is faster than the Xeon E5-2680 v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2680 v4 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has slightly more cores than the Xeon E5-2680 v4. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has 18 cores compared to 14 cores found in the Xeon E5-2680 v4. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2680 v4. A Xeon E5-2680 v4 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2696 v3 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. 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 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.