Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3 Benchmark and Specs

Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3 Processor benchmark and specs - 18 core Intel CPU rating. Is the Xeon E5-2696 v3 good for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

67 %

Very Good score from 2 samples
High uncertainty

Performance

Very Good

Ranking

67th of 622

Popularity

137th of 622

Samples

2 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

67 %

Gaming

Very Good

54 %

Multitasking

Very Good

72 %

Heavy Workloads

Very Good

76 %

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Alternative benchmarks

Here are some benchmark results using alternative testing software

Blender

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

249

Geekbench 5 (multi)

Multi threaded benchmark

7,392

Geekbench 5 (single)

Single threaded benchmark

1,060

Geekbench 6 (multi)

Multi threaded benchmark

8,254

Geekbench 6 (single)

Single threaded benchmark

1,105

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CPU Comparison

The Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3 compared against popular alternatives. Compare against more CPUs with our CPU Comparison Tool.

Intel Core i5-12400F	70 %
Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3	67 %
Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3	61 %
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X	61 %
AMD Ryzen 7 2700X	58 %
Intel Xeon E5-2678 v3	54 %
Intel Core i7-8700K	52 %

Specifications

Cores	18
Threads	36
TDP	145 W

Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3

The Xeon E5-2696 v3 is a 18 core CPU from Intel. This chip has a very good overall score at 67% in our CPU benchmark. Our gaming benchmark shows that this CPU is a very good processor for gaming, with a score of 54%. As for multitasking and heavy workloads, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 scores 72% and 76% respectively. Indeed, this is a very good rating for very heavy workloads.

The Xeon E5-2696 v3 has 18 cores and 36 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.

Power and thermals for the Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3 CPU are a TDP (Thermal Design Power) of 145 watts. This measures the amount of heat the processor produces when running at full load. This isn't a measure of power consumption, but it's good estimate.

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