Intel Xeon E3-1241 v3 vs Intel Core Ultra 7 255H

Compare Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 4 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) 16 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

2688 points
2788 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4287 points
24% slightly better gaming score
3457 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2219 points
2584 points
16% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2132 points
2521 points
18% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

48.98 points
212.94 points
334% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3893 points
13475 points
246% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1220 points
2524 points
106% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
16
300% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
75% significantly higher clock speed
2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
5.1 GHz
30% slightly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
28
75% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
128 GiB
300% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

592nd of 1,089
572nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 v3 Family
Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May
2025 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR5-8400

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
No

Xeon E3-1241 v3 vs Core Ultra 7 255H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 7 255H beats the Xeon E3-1241 v3 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1241 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 7 255H has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Xeon E3-1241 v3 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1241 v3. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1241 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 7 255H. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 255H has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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 Xeon E3-1241 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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