Intel Xeon E5-620 vs Intel Xeon X5687

Compare Intel Xeon 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 4 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

1884 points

1892 points

0.42% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2639 points

3477 points

31% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1648 points

13% slightly better multitasking score

1446 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1596 points

14% slightly better heavy workload score

1388 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

25.76 points

42.49 points

64% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.53 GHz

3.59 GHz

42% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

2.66 GHz

3.86 GHz

45% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

80 W

62% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

288 GiB

Identical

288 GiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.25 MiB

1 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

0.01 MiB

12 MiB

102300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

761st of 1,114

755th of 1,114

Family

The product line

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 February

2011 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 E5-620 vs Xeon X5687 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon X5687 beats the Xeon E5-620 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-620 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Xeon E5-620 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon X5687 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-620. Also, the Xeon X5687 has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-620 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5687 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Xeon X5687 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E5-620. The Xeon X5687 also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Xeon E5-620 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.