Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 vs Intel Xeon W-11855M

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 8 core CPU vs Intel Xeon W 6 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

5169 points
5286 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4558 points
7503 points
64% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5431 points
17% slightly better multitasking score
4615 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5595 points
25% slightly better heavy workload score
4471 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

106.21 points
121.37 points
14% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5055 points
7586 points
50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

944 points
1985 points
110% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
33% slightly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz
3.2 GHz
33% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.2 GHz
4.9 GHz
53% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

85 W
45 W
88% significantly lower TDP

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

768 GiB
499% significantly more supported memory
128 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

330th of 1,089
312th 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
2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600
-

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
Yes

Xeon E5-2630 v3 vs Xeon W-11855M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon W-11855M is faster than the Xeon E5-2630 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2630 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2630 v3 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Xeon W-11855M has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon W-11855M. Our comparison shows that the Xeon W-11855M has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2630 v3. Also, the Xeon W-11855M has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Xeon W-11855M outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2630 v3 thanks to a significantly 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 E5-2630 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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