Intel Xeon E5-1650 v3 vs Intel Xeon W-2125

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 6 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

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$ 1356.00

$ 429.95

$ 926.05 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3769 points

22% slightly better overall score

3067 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5233 points

5663 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3308 points

41% slightly better multitasking score

2337 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3206 points

43% significantly better heavy workload score

2241 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

90.40 points

23% slightly higher Blender score

72.99 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5154 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

4853 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1099 points

1323 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5477 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4933 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1201 points

1360 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

4 GHz

14% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

4.5 GHz

18% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W

120 W

16% slightly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

20% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

768 GiB

49% significantly more supported memory

512 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

453rd of 1,089

532nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Xeon W

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1333

DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-1650 v3 vs Xeon W-2125 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-1650 v3 performs better than the Xeon W-2125. Despite this, the Xeon W-2125 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-1650 v3 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Xeon W-2125 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon W-2125. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon W-2125 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-1650 v3. Also, the Xeon W-2125 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon W-2125 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1650 v3 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1650 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.