Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 vs Intel Xeon X5670

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 14 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon X5670

Price

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$ 211.95

$ 88.88

$ 123.07 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6066 points

94% significantly better overall score

3118 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5717 points

34% slightly better gaming score

4250 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6174 points

124% significantly better multitasking score

2751 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6198 points

132% significantly better heavy workload score

2664 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

195.63 points

277% significantly higher Blender score

51.81 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6195 points

156% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2417 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

988 points

110% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

470 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6901 points

198% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2310 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1027 points

109% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

491 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

133% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

133% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz

2.93 GHz

22% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz

3.33 GHz

0.91% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W

95 W

26% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

33% slightly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

247th of 1,089

522nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February

2010 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2680 v4 vs Xeon X5670 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2680 v4 performs better than the Xeon X5670. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X5670 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2680 v4 has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Xeon X5670 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon X5670. Our comparison shows that the Xeon X5670 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2680 v4. Also, the Xeon X5670 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon X5670 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2680 v4 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.