Intel Xeon X5680 vs Intel Xeon W3680

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 W3680

Price

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$ 147.98

$ 31.75 slightly less expensive

$ 179.73

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4570 points

54% significantly better overall score

2952 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4503 points

11% slightly better gaming score

4047 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4578 points

76% significantly better multitasking score

2596 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4568 points

81% significantly better heavy workload score

2512 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

56.43 points

68.56 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2584 points

2622 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

535 points

564 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2476 points

2543 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

532 points

550 points

3% 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

3.33 GHz

0.15% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

Identical

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

Identical

130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

288 GiB

1100% significantly more supported memory

24 GiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.02 MiB

12 MiB

58414% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

383rd of 1,089

544th 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 X5680 vs Xeon W3680 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon X5680 is faster than the Xeon W3680. Despite this, the Xeon W3680 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon W3680 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon X5680. 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 info from our database shows that the Xeon W3680 has more L2 cache than the Xeon X5680

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.