Intel Xeon E5-2640 v4 vs Intel Xeon W-2123

Xeon E5-2640 v4 vs Xeon W-2123 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2640 v4 beats the Xeon W-2123 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon W-2123 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2640 v4 has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Xeon W-2123 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon W-2123. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon W-2123 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2640 v4. Also, the Xeon W-2123 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-2640 v4 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon W-2123 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 E5-2640 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.