Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 12 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

5502 points

6495 points

18% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5267 points

5724 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5565 points

6803 points

22% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5563 points

6991 points

25% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5872 points

6829 points

16% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

165.47 points

231.70 points

40% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6942 points

7392 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1009 points

1060 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7090 points

8186 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1072 points

1134 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

135 W

7% slightly lower TDP

145 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

294th of 1,089

221st 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 E5-2690 v3 vs Xeon E5-2696 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 beats the Xeon E5-2690 v3 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has significantly more cores with 18 cores compared to the Xeon E5-2690 v3 that has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2690 v3. A Xeon E5-2690 v3 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.

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 E5-2690 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.