Intel Xeon E5-620 vs Intel Xeon X5687

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1976 points
4% slightly better overall score
1892 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2711 points
3477 points
28% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1746 points
20% slightly better multitasking score
1446 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1694 points
22% slightly better heavy workload score
1388 points

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Blender score

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

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

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

3
Identical
3

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

733rd of 1,102
749th of 1,102

Family

The product line

Xeon
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
DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
Yes

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