HP Z440 best Gaming Processor

[ATM333]

For gaming using HP Z440 with 32 gigs DDR4 & GTX 1070 8 GB VRAM, which processor will be better 

E5 1650 V4

OR

E5 2680 V4

OR

any other recommendations

Thank You

[NonSequitur777]

@ATM333,

Welcome to our HP Community forum!

The Xeon E5-1650 v4 (6-Cores, 12-Threads, 3.60 GHz up to 4.00 GHz, 140-watt TDP) is the best gaming processor compared with a Xeon E5-2680 v4 (14-Threads, 28-Cores, 2.40 GHz up to 3.30 GHz, 120-watt TDP).

Reason being is that 6-Cores is really all you need for the vast majority of modern games. What is important are the base and turbo frequencies, which as you can see, are substantially higher with the Xeon E5-1650 v4.

Now, if your main focus was virtualization, video or graphics rendering or software (AI) testing, then the Xeon E5-2680 v4 or, say, the Xeon E5-2699A v4 (22-Cores, 44-Threads, 2.40 GHz up to 3.60 GHz, 145-watt TDP) would be the preferred choice.

In addition to the Xeon E5-1650 v4, there are a couple of oddball processors not usually associated with the HP Z440 Workstation, but are nevertheless compatible: the Intel Core i7-6850K (6-Cores, 12-Threads, 3.60 GHz up to 3.80 GHz, 140-watt TDP), the Intel Core i7-6900K 8-Cores, 16-Threads, 3.20 GHz up to 3.70 GHz, 140-watt TDP) -which I used in my HP Z440 Workstation upgrade project: https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Desktop-Hardware-and-Upgrade-Questions/Upgrading-an-HP-Z440-Workstatio..., and the best gaming processor of them all, the mighty Intel Core i7-6950X Extreme Edition (10-Cores, 20-Threads, 300 GHz up to 3.50 GHz, 140-watt TDP) : https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Xeon-E5-1650-v4-vs-Intel-Core-i7-6950X/m145953vs3604.

The Xeon E5-1650 E4 and the i7-6900K are identical in gaming-processor performance: https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Xeon-E5-1650-v4-vs-Intel-Core-i7-6900K/m145953vs3605.

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777

[ATM333]

Thank you for replying 

I believe that higher single core frequency is important to games , but I have watched this video, which proves that 2680 v4 is better / equal to 1650 v4.

https://youtu.be/IozFKt7ut6I?si=Z_0ayZI0WRvRUhIy

Please tell me what is the reason?

[NonSequitur777]

@ATM333,

Well, I am not convinced, and here is why:

A Xeon E5-1650 v4 (6-Cores, 12-Threads, 3.60 GHz up to 4.00 GHz, 140-watt TDP) has significantly higher base and turbo speeds compared with a Xeon E5-2680 v4 (14-Cores, 28-Threads, 2.40 GHz up to 3.30 GHz, 120-watt TDP).

Yes, a Xeon E5-1650 v4 has less Cores and Threads, but for most games you don't need more than 6-Cores anyway.

In short, it depends where you look to get your information.

As far as Userbenchmark is concerned (focused/skewed heavily on gaming evaluations), when it comes to overall gaming performance, the Xeon E5-1650 v4 (Average Bench: 83.5% with 3,726 benchmarks) on balance performs much better than the Xeon E5-2680 v4 (Average Bench: 72% with 3,842 benchmarks).

Check for yourself:

Xeon E5-1650 v4: https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/SpeedTest/145953/IntelR-XeonR-CPU-E5-1650-v4---360GHz

Xeon E5-2680 v4: https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/SpeedTest/137947/IntelR-XeonR-CPU-E5-2680-v4---240GHz

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777