Intel Xeon E5-2670 Pro Reviews

While there were a couple of blips in the performance of the Xeon E5-2670, these were mainly in older, less multi-threaded benchmarks, which are arenas best suited to more mainstream CPUs. The Xeon E5-2670 performed excellently in the types of applications it was designed to batter into submission, namely anything that involved rendering, animation or modelling. Here it was almost always significantly faster than previous generation Xeons, or at the very worst, about the same speed while having a stock speed several hundred megahertz lower - no mean achievement. The fact that in some cases, it was significantly faster than heavily overclocked previous generation Xeons makes it a stunning CPU for workstation use, and while it demands the usual price premium for Intel's flagship line of CPUs, the time it can potentially save is likely to make it a no-brainer upgrade where time is money. Coupled with lower power draw to boot, Intel looks like it's on to a winner with the Xeon E5 series, and the E5-2670 definitely gets our vote if you're in the market for components to build a high-end workstation.