Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2698 v3

Compare Intel 18 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 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

6% slightly better overall score

6109 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5724 points

4% slightly better gaming score

5454 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6803 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

6350 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6991 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

6447 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

231.70 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

190.75 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7392 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

6221 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1060 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

950 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8186 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

7350 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1134 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1043 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

135 W

7% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

221st of 1,089

245th 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 E5-2696 v3 vs Xeon E5-2698 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 beats the Xeon E5-2698 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2698 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has slightly more cores than the Xeon E5-2698 v3. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has 18 cores compared to 16 cores found in the Xeon E5-2698 v3. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2698 v3. The Xeon E5-2698 v3 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2696 v3 thanks to a 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 E5-2696 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.