Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4

Compare Intel 18 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 16 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

6495 points

8324 points

28% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5724 points

6186 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6803 points

9116 points

33% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6991 points

9598 points

37% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

231.70 points

3% slightly higher Blender score

224.42 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8186 points

8264 points

0.95% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1134 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1062 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12% slightly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

145 W

Identical

145 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

221st of 1,089

134th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs Xeon E5-2697A v4 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 is faster than the Xeon E5-2696 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2696 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has slightly more cores with 18 cores compared to the Xeon E5-2697A v4 that has 16 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 E5-2696 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.