Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2

Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2 Benchmark and Specs

Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2 Processor benchmark and specs - 12 core Intel CPU rating. Is the Xeon E5-2696 v2 good for gaming?

Benchmark Score

5,240
Very Good score from 1 sample
High uncertainty
Performance
Very Good
Ranking
320th of 1,089
Popularity
599th of 1,089
Samples
1 benchmarks

CPU benchmarks

Here are the performance results of this CPU in both the hardwareDB Benchmark and other benchmark utilities. Synthetic tests are an estimation of real-world performance using consistent and repeatable benchmarks.

Overall

Very Good

5,240

Gaming

Very Good

5,199

Multitasking

Very Good

5,238

Heavy Workloads

Very Good

5,217

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Alternative benchmarks

Here are some benchmark results using alternative testing software

Blender

Blender

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

103
Geekbench 5 (multi)

Geekbench 5 (multi)

Multi threaded benchmark

4,163
Geekbench 5 (single)

Geekbench 5 (single)

Single threaded benchmark

499
Geekbench 6 (multi)

Geekbench 6 (multi)

Multi threaded benchmark

4,084
Geekbench 6 (single)

Geekbench 6 (single)

Single threaded benchmark

534

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CPU Comparison

The Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2 compared against popular alternatives. Compare against more CPUs with our CPU Comparison Tool.

Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3
5,940 points
Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2
5,240 points
Intel Core i3-12100
5,115 points
Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2
5,073 points
Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2
5,072 points
AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT
4,503 points
Intel Xeon E5-2650 v2
3,764 points

Specifications

Cores 12
Threads 24

Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2

The Xeon E5-2696 v2 is a 12 core CPU from Intel. This chip has a very good overall score with 5240 points in our CPU benchmark. Our gaming benchmark shows that this CPU is a very good processor for gaming, with a score of 5199 points. As for multitasking and heavy workloads, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 scores 5238 points and 5217 points respectively. Indeed, this is a very good rating for very heavy workloads.

The Xeon E5-2696 v2 has 12 cores and 24 threads. This CPU makes use of simultaneous multithreading technology to improve performance on parallel tasks. Each physical CPU core is divided into multiple logical processors.

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