Intel Xeon E3-1281 v3 vs Intel Xeon W-2125

Compare Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon W 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon W-2125

Price

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$ 546.25

$ 429.95

$ 116.30 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3044 points

3067 points

0.76% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5018 points

5663 points

12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2460 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

2337 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2361 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

2241 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

76.91 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

72.99 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3467 points

4853 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

953 points

1323 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4098 points

4933 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1291 points

1360 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

4 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

4.5 GHz

9% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

82 W

46% significantly lower TDP

120 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

200% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

512 GiB

1500% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

534th of 1,089

532nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Xeon W

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May

2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E3-1281 v3 vs Xeon W-2125 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon W-2125 is faster than the Xeon E3-1281 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1281 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon W-2125 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1281 v3. Also, the Xeon W-2125 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E3-1281 v3 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon W-2125 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 E3-1281 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.