Intel Xeon X5680 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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$ 147.98

$ 88.88

$ 59.10 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4570 points

46% significantly better overall score

3118 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4503 points

5% slightly better gaming score

4250 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4578 points

66% significantly better multitasking score

2751 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4568 points

71% significantly better heavy workload score

2664 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

56.43 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

51.81 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2584 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2417 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

535 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

470 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2476 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2310 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

532 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

491 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

13% slightly higher clock speed

2.93 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

3.33 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

95 W

36% slightly lower TDP

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

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

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 X5680 vs Xeon X5670 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon X5680 performs better than the Xeon X5670. Despite this, the Xeon X5670 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon X5680 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon X5670. Also, the Xeon X5680 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon X5670 outputs less heat than Xeon X5680 thanks to a slightly 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 X5680. The Xeon X5670 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 X5680 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.