Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 vs Intel Xeon W-2125

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 8 core CPU vs Intel Xeon W 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon W-2125

Price

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$ 459.00

$ 429.95

$ 29.05 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5169 points

68% significantly better overall score

3067 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4558 points

5663 points

24% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5431 points

132% significantly better multitasking score

2337 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5595 points

149% significantly better heavy workload score

2241 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

106.21 points

45% significantly higher Blender score

72.99 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4845 points

4853 points

0.17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

913 points

1323 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5055 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4933 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

944 points

1360 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz

4 GHz

66% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.2 GHz

4.5 GHz

40% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

85 W

41% slightly lower TDP

120 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

20% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

768 GiB

49% significantly more supported memory

512 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

330th of 1,089

532nd 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

2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2630 v3 vs Xeon W-2125 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2630 v3 performs better than the Xeon W-2125. Despite this, the Xeon W-2125 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2630 v3 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Xeon W-2125 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon W-2125. Our comparison shows that the Xeon W-2125 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2630 v3. Also, the Xeon W-2125 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-2630 v3 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.

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 E5-2630 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.