Intel Xeon E5-2643 vs Intel Core 7 150U

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 4 core CPU vs Intel Core (Series 1) 10 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

2971 points

2% slightly better overall score

2898 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4108 points

4205 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2620 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

2534 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2542 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

2452 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

40.83 points

84.75 points

107% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2094 points

7276 points

247% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

566 points

2112 points

273% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

150% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

83% significantly higher clock speed

1.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

5.4 GHz

54% significantly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

100% significantly 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

300% significantly more supported memory

96 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

542nd of 1,089

554th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

Core (Series 1)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR5-5200

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2643 vs Core 7 150U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2643 is faster than the Core 7 150U. Despite this, the Core 7 150U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 7 150U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2643 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2643. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2643 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core 7 150U. Despite this, the Core 7 150U has a significantly higher turbo speed.

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 E5-2643 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.