Intel Xeon E5-2640 vs Intel Core Ultra 7 255H

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 6 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) 16 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

2849 points

7661 points

168% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3820 points

9595 points

151% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2537 points

7028 points

177% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2462 points

6834 points

177% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

47.31 points

212.94 points

350% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2265 points

13475 points

494% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

450 points

2524 points

460% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

166% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.50 GHz

25% slightly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3 GHz

5.1 GHz

69% significantly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

42% many more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

384 GiB

200% significantly more supported memory

128 GiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

28 MiB

1766% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

15 MiB

24 MiB

60% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

579th of 1,118

168th of 1,118

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

2025 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR5-8400

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2640 vs Core Ultra 7 255H benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core Ultra 7 255H is faster than the Xeon E5-2640. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2640 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 7 255H has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2640 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2640. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2640 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 7 255H. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 255H has a significantly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 255H has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2640. The Core Ultra 7 255H also has significantly more L3 cache.

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