Intel Xeon E5-2687W vs Intel Xeon X5680

Xeon E5-2687W vs Xeon X5680 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon X5680 beats the Xeon E5-2687W in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2687W has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2687W has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Xeon X5680 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon X5680. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon X5680 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2687W. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2687W has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon X5680 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2687W thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Xeon E5-2687W has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon X5680. The Xeon E5-2687W also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 E5-2687W has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.