Intel Xeon X5680 vs Intel Xeon X5675

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Intel Xeon X5675

Price

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$ 147.98

$ 147.88

$ 0.10 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4570 points

2% slightly better overall score

4455 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4503 points

2% slightly better gaming score

4385 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4578 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

4466 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4568 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

4450 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

56.43 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

53.89 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2584 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2477 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

535 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

503 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2476 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2434 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

532 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

503 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

8% slightly higher clock speed

3.06 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

3.46 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

393rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 February

2011 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 X5675 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon X5675 is faster than the Xeon X5680. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X5680 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 X5680 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon X5675. Also, the Xeon X5680 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon X5675 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. The info from our database shows that the Xeon X5675 has more L2 cache than the Xeon X5680. The Xeon X5675 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.