Intel Xeon X5650 vs Intel Xeon X5670

Compare Intel Xeon 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon X5670

Price

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$ 46.96

$ 41.92 significantly less expensive

$ 88.88

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2207 points

3118 points

41% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3219 points

4250 points

32% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1889 points

2751 points

45% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1825 points

2664 points

45% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

44.76 points

51.81 points

15% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2315 points

2417 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

451 points

470 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2241 points

2310 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

445 points

491 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.66 GHz

2.93 GHz

10% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.06 GHz

3.33 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

Identical

95 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

1.5 MiB

Identical

1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB

Identical

12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

682nd of 1,089

522nd 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 X5650 vs Xeon X5670 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon X5650 performs better than the Xeon X5670. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X5670 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon X5670 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon X5650. Also, the Xeon X5670 has a slightly higher turbo speed. 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 data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches and L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Xeon X5650 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.