Intel Xeon E5-1650 vs Intel Xeon W-2125

Xeon E5-1650 vs Xeon W-2125 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-1650 is faster than the Xeon W-2125. Despite this, the Xeon W-2125 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-1650 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Xeon W-2125 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon W-2125. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon W-2125 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-1650. Also, the Xeon W-2125 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon W-2125 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1650 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 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.