Intel Xeon E5-2470 v2 vs Intel Core Ultra 7 256V

Xeon E5-2470 v2 vs Core Ultra 7 256V specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2470 v2 beats the Core Ultra 7 256V in overall performance. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 256V has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2470 v2 has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core Ultra 7 256V that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core Ultra 7 256V. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2470 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 7 256V. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 256V has a significantly 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 E5-2470 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.