Intel Xeon W3580 vs Intel Xeon X5680

Xeon W3580 vs Xeon X5680 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon X5680 performs better than the Xeon W3580. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon W3580 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon X5680 has significantly more cores than the Xeon W3580. Indeed, the Xeon X5680 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon W3580. It also has more threads than the Xeon W3580. According to our data, the Xeon W3580 and Xeon X5680 have the same clock speed. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Xeon W3580 has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon X5680. The Xeon W3580 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 W3580 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.