Intel Xeon W3680 vs Intel Core i7 X 980

Compare Intel Xeon 6 core CPU vs Intel 6 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

2952 points

2957 points

0.17% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4047 points

0.25% slightly better gaming score

4037 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2596 points

2609 points

0.50% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2512 points

2522 points

0.40% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

68.56 points

30% slightly higher Blender score

52.64 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.33 GHz

3.37 GHz

1% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

12 MiB

Identical

12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

544th of 1,089

543rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 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 W3680 vs Core i7 X 980 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7 X 980 is faster than the Xeon W3680. Despite this, the Xeon W3680 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7 X 980 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon W3680. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches

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 W3680 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.