Intel Xeon X5670 vs Intel Xeon E3-1505M v6

Xeon X5670 vs Xeon E3-1505M v6 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon X5670 beats the Xeon E3-1505M v6 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1505M v6 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon X5670 has significantly more cores than the Xeon E3-1505M v6. Indeed, the Xeon X5670 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E3-1505M v6. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1505M v6. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1505M v6 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon X5670. Also, the Xeon E3-1505M v6 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1505M v6 outputs less heat than Xeon X5670 thanks to a 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 X5670 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E3-1505M v6. The Xeon X5670 also has significantly more 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 X5670 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.