Intel Xeon E5-2695 v2 vs Intel Xeon X5680

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 12 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 X5680

Price

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$ 197.70

$ 147.98

$ 49.72 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4633 points

1% slightly better overall score

4570 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4548 points

1.00% slightly better gaming score

4503 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4652 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

4578 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4653 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

4568 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

108.71 points

92% significantly higher Blender score

56.43 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6355 points

145% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2584 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

596 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

535 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3922 points

58% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2476 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

467 points

532 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz

3.33 GHz

38% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.2 GHz

3.6 GHz

12% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

115 W

13% slightly lower TDP

130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

33% slightly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

768 GiB

166% significantly more supported memory

288 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

377th of 1,089

383rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v2 Family

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August

2010 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2695 v2 vs Xeon X5680 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2695 v2 is faster than the Xeon X5680. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X5680 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2695 v2 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Xeon X5680 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon X5680. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon X5680 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2695 v2. Also, the Xeon X5680 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-2695 v2 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5680 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 E5-2695 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.