Intel Xeon X5680 vs Intel Core i7-9750HF

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

4570 points

17% slightly better overall score

3873 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4503 points

4925 points

9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4578 points

29% slightly better multitasking score

3532 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4568 points

33% slightly better heavy workload score

3431 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

56.43 points

81.47 points

44% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2476 points

4839 points

95% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

532 points

1360 points

155% significantly 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

3.33 GHz

28% slightly higher clock speed

2.59 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

4.5 GHz

25% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

45 W

188% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

288 GiB

125% significantly more supported memory

128 GiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.02 MiB

1.5 MiB

7214% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

1 MiB

12 MiB

1100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

383rd of 1,089

445th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon

9th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 February

2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon X5680 vs Core i7-9750HF comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon X5680 is faster than the Core i7-9750HF. Despite this, the Core i7-9750HF 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. Our comparison shows that the Xeon X5680 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-9750HF. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-9750HF has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon X5680. The Core i7-9750HF also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Xeon X5680 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.