Intel Core Ultra 5 225F 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

9993 points
4% slightly better overall score
9575 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13363 points
117% significantly better gaming score
6158 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8865 points
10863 points
22% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8577 points
11703 points
36% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

213.24 points
256.88 points
20% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

10
18
79% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

10
36
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

24
48
100% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
6
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

90th 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

No
Yes

Core Ultra 5 225F vs Xeon Gold 6140 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 5 225F beats the Xeon Gold 6140 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon Gold 6140 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon Gold 6140 has significantly more cores with 18 cores whereas the Core Ultra 5 225F has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 225F. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core Ultra 5 225F has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon Gold 6140. Also, the Core Ultra 5 225F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core Ultra 5 225F 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 225F.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the Core Ultra 5 225F has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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