Intel Xeon E5-1620 v3 vs Intel Core Ultra 7 255H

Compare Intel Xeon E5 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

2681 points
2788 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4224 points
22% slightly better gaming score
3457 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2223 points
2584 points
16% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2134 points
2521 points
18% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

61.49 points
212.94 points
246% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3886 points
13475 points
246% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1093 points
2524 points
130% 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

3.6 GHz
5.1 GHz
41% slightly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

40
42% many more pcie lanes
28

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

768 GiB
499% significantly more supported memory
128 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

595th of 1,089
572nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family
Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August
2025 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1333
DDR5-8400

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
No

Xeon E5-1620 v3 vs Core Ultra 7 255H benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core Ultra 7 255H performs better than the Xeon E5-1620 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1620 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 7 255H has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Xeon E5-1620 v3 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1620 v3. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-1620 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to 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 E5-1620 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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