Intel Core Ultra 5 135U vs Intel Xeon E5-2687W v4

Compare Intel Core Ultra (Series 1) 12 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5620 points
6031 points
7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7748 points
27% slightly better gaming score
6083 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4993 points
5984 points
19% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4839 points
5939 points
22% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

121.36 points
185.69 points
53% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8338 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
7665 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1948 points
78% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1092 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
Identical
12

Threads

Number of logical processing units

14
24
71% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz
3.00 GHz
42% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
25% slightly higher turbo speed
3.5 GHz

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

20
40
100% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
4
100% significantly more memory channels

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

10 MiB
233% significantly more L2 cache
3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB
30 MiB
150% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

285th of 1,089
249th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core Ultra (Series 1)
Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 November
2016 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-7467
DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core Ultra 5 135U vs Xeon E5-2687W v4 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core Ultra 5 135U performs better than the Xeon E5-2687W v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2687W v4 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Xeon E5-2687W v4 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2687W v4 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 5 135U. Despite this, the Core Ultra 5 135U has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 5 135U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E5-2687W v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2687W v4 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 5 135U.

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 Core Ultra 5 135U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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