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Intel Xeon E5-2680

The Intel Xeon E5-2680 is a server-grade processor of the Sandy Bridge EP product family. It first saw the light of day in 2012. This Xeon has 8 cores (16 threads) running at 2.7 GHz to 3.5 GHz but no GPU of its own.

The chip features 20 MB of L3 cache and a DDR3-1600 memory controller. You can mate up to 384 GB of ECC-enabled RAM to this CPU, for reference. It has forty PCI-Express 3 lanes at its disposal for connecting graphics cards, storage mediums and other devices.

You can easily replace this CPU with something else considering it uses Intel's LGA2011 socket interface.

Power consumption

This Xeon series processor has a default TDP (also known as the long-term power limit) of 130 W. Xeon E5-2680 is built with a very old, as of late 2022, 32 nm Intel process for terribly low energy efficiency.

SeriesIntel Xeon (Desktop)
CodenameSandy Bridge-EP
Clock Rate2700 - 3500 MHz
Level 1 Cache512 KB
Level 2 Cache2 MB
Level 3 Cache20 MB
Number of Cores / Threads8 / 16
Power Consumption (TDP = Thermal Design Power)130 Watt
Transistor Count2270 Million
Features32 nm, 0.6-1.35
Die Size435 mm2
Max. Temperature85 °C
SocketLGA2011
FeaturesDDR3-1600 ECC RAM, PCIe 3, 8 GT/s bus, vPro, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AES, AVX
64 Bit64 Bit support
Architecturex86
Starting Price$1723 U.S.
Announcement Date03/06/2012
Product Link (external)ark.intel.com

Benchmarks

Cinebench R11.5 - Cinebench R11.5 CPU Multi 64 Bit
12 Points (16%)
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Cinebench R11.5 - Cinebench R11.5 CPU Single 64 Bit
1.3 Points (31%)
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Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Rend. Single (32bit)
4118 points (25%)
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Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Rend. Multi (32bit)
26801 points (19%)
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Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Rend. Multi (64bit)
32120 Points (22%)
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Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Rend. Single (64bit)
5134 Points (28%)
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wPrime 2.10 - wPrime 2.0 1024m *
130 s (2%)
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wPrime 2.10 - wPrime 2.0 32m *
4.9 s (1%)
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TrueCrypt - TrueCrypt Serpent
1.7 GB/s (52%)
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TrueCrypt - TrueCrypt Twofish
0.5 GB/s (9%)
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TrueCrypt - TrueCrypt AES
0.3 GB/s (1%)
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3DMark 06 - CPU - 3DMark 06 - CPU
7924 Points (17%)
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Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 1M - Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 1M *
12 s (3%)
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Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 2M - Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 2M *
27 s (1%)
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Super Pi Mod 1.5 XS 32M - Super Pi mod 1.5 XS 32M *
673 s (3%)
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3DMark Vantage - 3DM Vant. Perf. CPU no Physx
35480 Points (33%)
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3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance Physics
10990 Points (30%)
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3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Physics
47710 Points (39%)
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3DMark - 3DMark Cloud Gate Physics
10540 Points (27%)
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3DMark - 3DMark Fire Strike Standard Physics
13534 Points (24%)
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Other CPUs of the series Xeon (Desktop)

» Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4
   14x 2.4 GHz - 3.3 GHz
» Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2
   12x 2.7 GHz - 3.5 GHz
» Intel Xeon E5-2680
   8x 2.7 GHz - 3.5 GHz
» Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5
   4x 3.7 GHz - 4 GHz
» Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3
   4x 3.4 GHz - 3.8 GHz
» Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3
   4x 3.3 GHz - 3.7 GHz
» Intel Xeon X5670
   6x 2.93 GHz - 3.33 GHz
» Intel Xeon E3-1226 v3
   4x 3.3 GHz - 3.7 GHz

Surrounding CPUs

+ Intel Core i5-11400T
   6x 1.3 GHz - 3.7 GHz
+ Intel Core i3-10320
   4x 3.8 GHz - 4.6 GHz
+ Intel Core i7-4960X
   6x 3.6 GHz - 4 GHz
+ Intel Core i7-7700
   4x 3.6 GHz - 4.2 GHz
+ Intel Core i7-6700K
   4x 4 GHz - 4.2 GHz
» Intel Xeon E5-2680
   8x 2.7 GHz - 3.5 GHz
- Intel Core i7-3960X
   6x 3.3 GHz - 3.9 GHz
- Intel Core i7-4790K
   4x 4 GHz - 4.4 GHz
- Intel Core i5-8500T
   6x 2.1 GHz - 3.5 GHz
- AMD Ryzen 5 1600
   6x 3.2 GHz - 3.6 GHz
- AMD Ryzen 3 3300X
   4x 3.8 GHz - 4.3 GHz
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Klaus Hinum (Update: 2019-12-25)