Intel Core Ultra 5 225 vs Intel Xeon Gold 6140

Compare Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) 10 core CPU vs Intel Xeon Scalable 18 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

9336 points

9575 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12806 points

107% significantly better gaming score

6158 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8189 points

10863 points

32% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7901 points

11703 points

48% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

221.91 points

256.88 points

15% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

79% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

259% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

43% significantly higher clock speed

2.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz

32% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 GHz

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

100% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

200% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

256 GiB

768 GiB

200% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

22 MiB

22% slightly more L2 cache

18 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

20 MiB

24.75 MiB

23% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

103rd of 1,089

98th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core Ultra (Series 2)

Xeon Scalable

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2025 February

2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-6400

DDR4-2666

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core Ultra 5 225 vs Xeon Gold 6140 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon Gold 6140 is faster than the Core Ultra 5 225. Despite this, the Core Ultra 5 225 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon Gold 6140 has significantly more cores than the Core Ultra 5 225. Indeed, the Xeon Gold 6140 has 18 cores compared to 10 cores found in the Core Ultra 5 225. It also has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 225. With our hardware info, we find that the Core Ultra 5 225 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon Gold 6140. Also, the Core Ultra 5 225 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core Ultra 5 225 has more L2 cache than the Xeon Gold 6140. Despite this, the Xeon Gold 6140 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 5 225.

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. For instance, the Core Ultra 5 225 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.