Intel Xeon E5-2620 vs Intel Xeon W-2125

Compare Intel Xeon E5 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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Price

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$ 207.15
$ 222.80 significantly less expensive
$ 429.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2694 points
3067 points
13% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3212 points
5663 points
76% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2534 points
8% slightly better multitasking score
2337 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2503 points
11% slightly better heavy workload score
2241 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

38.93 points
72.99 points
87% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2793 points
4853 points
73% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points
1323 points
188% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1902 points
4933 points
159% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

390 points
1360 points
248% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
49% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
49% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz
4 GHz
100% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

2.5 GHz
4.5 GHz
79% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
26% slightly lower TDP
120 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

40
48
20% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
Identical
4

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

384 GiB
512 GiB
33% slightly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

591st of 1,089
532nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family
Xeon W

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February
2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
Yes

Xeon E5-2620 vs Xeon W-2125 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon W-2125 is faster than the Xeon E5-2620. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2620 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2620 has significantly more cores than the Xeon W-2125. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2620 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon W-2125. It also has more threads than the Xeon W-2125. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon W-2125 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2620. Also, the Xeon W-2125 has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-2620 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon W-2125 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 E5-2620 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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