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Intel Xeon E5-2680: specs and benchmarks
Price now
117$
Games supported
97%
- Interface
- Core clock speed
- Max video memory
- Memory type
- Memory clock speed
- Maximum resolution
Year of release
2012
Performance
7.46
Summary
Intel started Intel Xeon E5-2680 sales 6 March 2012 at a recommended price of $1,723. This is a Sandy Bridge-EP architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 8 cores and 16 threads, and is based on 32 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 3500 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is FCLGA2011 processor with a TDP of 130 Watt. It supports DDR3 memory.
It provides poor benchmark performance at
7.46%
of a leader's which is AMD EPYC 9654.
General info
Xeon E5-2680 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in performance rating | 802 | |
| Value for money | 7.44 | |
| Market segment | Server | |
| Series | Xeon (Desktop) | |
| Architecture codename | Sandy Bridge-EP (2012) | |
| Release date | 6 March 2012 (11 years old) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $1,723 | of 305 (Core i7-870) |
| Current price | $117 (0.1x MSRP) | of 16241 (Xeon Platinum 8276L) |
Value for money
Technical specs
Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.
| Physical cores | 8 (Octa-Core) | |
| Threads | 16 | |
| Base clock speed | 2.7 GHz | of 4.7 (Ryzen 9 7900X) |
| Boost clock speed | 3.5 GHz | of 6 (Core i9-13900KS) |
| Bus support | 8GT/s | |
| L1 cache | 64K (per core) | of 7475.2 (Apple M2 Pro 10-Core) |
| L2 cache | 256K (per core) | of 36864 (Apple M2 Max) |
| L3 cache | 20 MB (shared) | of 768 (EPYC 7773X) |
| Chip lithography | 32 nm | of 4 (Ryzen 7 7840HS) |
| Die size | 435 mm2 | |
| Maximum core temperature | 85 °C | of 110 (Atom x7-E3950) |
| Number of transistors | 2,270 million | of 9900000 (Ryzen 9 7945HX) |
| 64 bit support | + | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - | |
| Unlocked multiplier | - |
Compatibility
Information on Xeon E5-2680 compatibility with other computer components and devices: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.
| Number of CPUs in a configuration | 2 | of 8 (Xeon Platinum 8160M) |
| Socket | FCLGA2011 | |
| Thermal design power (TDP) | 130 Watt | of 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Xeon E5-2680. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | Intel® AVX | |
| AES-NI | + | |
| AVX | + | |
| Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST) | + | |
| Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST) | + | |
| Turbo Boost Technology | 2.0 | |
| Hyper-Threading Technology | + | |
| Idle States | + | |
| Thermal Monitoring | + | |
| Flex Memory Access | - | |
| Demand Based Switching | + |
Security technologies
Processor technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.
| TXT | + | |
| EDB | + | |
| Identity Protection | - |
Virtualization technologies
Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.
| VT-d | + | |
| VT-x | + | |
| EPT | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Xeon E5-2680's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR3 | of 5600 (Ryzen 7 7840HS) |
| Maximum memory size | 384 GB | of 786 (Xeon E5-2670 v3) |
| Max memory channels | 4 | of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221) |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | 51.2 GB/s | of 284.357 (EPYC 9654) |
| ECC memory support | + |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.
| PCIe version | 3.0 | of 5 (EPYC 9654) |
| PCI Express lanes | 40 | of 128 (EPYC 7401) |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Xeon E5-2680. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.
Overall score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
- Passmark
- GeekBench 5 Single-Core
- GeekBench 5 Multi-Core
- Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core
- Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core
- 3DMark06 CPU
- Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core
- Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core
- TrueCrypt AES
Passmark
Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.
Benchmark coverage: 67%
GeekBench 5 Single-Core
GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.
Benchmark coverage: 37%
GeekBench 5 Multi-Core
GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.
Benchmark coverage: 37%
Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core
Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.
Benchmark coverage: 20%
Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core
Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.
Benchmark coverage: 19%
3DMark06 CPU
3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.
Benchmark coverage: 19%
Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core
Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.
Benchmark coverage: 17%
Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core
Cinebench R11.5 is an old benchmark by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version loads a single thread with ray tracing to render a glossy room full of crystal spheres and light sources.
Benchmark coverage: 14%
TrueCrypt AES
TrueCrypt is a discontinued piece of software that was widely used for on-the-fly-encryption of disk partitions, now superseded by VeraCrypt. It contains several embedded performance tests, one of them being TrueCrypt AES, which measures data encryption speed using AES algorithm. Result is encryption speed in gigabytes per second.
Benchmark coverage: 13%
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Relative perfomance
Overall Xeon E5-2680 performance compared to nearest competitors among server CPUs.
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Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for Xeon E5-2680, according to our PC configuration statistics.
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These are the fastest graphics cards for Xeon E5-2680 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 177 configurations based on Xeon E5-2680 in our database.
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