Intel Xeon E5-2643 vs Intel Xeon W-2123

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 4 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-2123

Price

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$ 2157.00

$ 392.73

$ 1764.27 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2971 points

3091 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4108 points

5120 points

24% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2620 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

2483 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2542 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

2382 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

40.83 points

64.80 points

58% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2888 points

4215 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

646 points

1172 points

81% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2094 points

4345 points

107% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

566 points

1198 points

111% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

3.6 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

3.9 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

120 W

8% slightly lower TDP

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

384 GiB

512 GiB

33% slightly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

542nd of 1,089

526th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

Xeon W

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2643 vs Xeon W-2123 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon W-2123 is faster than the Xeon E5-2643. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2643 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon W-2123 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2643. Also, the Xeon W-2123 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon W-2123 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2643 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2643 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.