Intel Xeon E5-1650 vs Intel Core Ultra 5 125U

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 6 core CPU vs Intel 12 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

3446 points
6% slightly better overall score
3241 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4699 points
5004 points
6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3046 points
11% slightly better multitasking score
2724 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2950 points
12% slightly better heavy workload score
2614 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

55.26 points
91.09 points
64% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2889 points
7587 points
162% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

595 points
1843 points
209% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
12
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
14
16% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz
3.6 GHz
12% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz
4.3 GHz
13% slightly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

40
100% significantly more pcie lanes
20

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

256 GiB
166% significantly more supported memory
96 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

490th of 1,089
506th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family
Core Ultra (Series 1)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February
2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR5-7467

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
No

Xeon E5-1650 vs Core Ultra 5 125U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core Ultra 5 125U is faster than the Xeon E5-1650. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1650 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core Ultra 5 125U has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-1650. Indeed, the Core Ultra 5 125U has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Xeon E5-1650. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1650. With our hardware info, we find that the Core Ultra 5 125U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-1650.

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. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1650 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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