Intel Xeon E5-2650 vs Intel Xeon W-2123

Compare Intel Xeon E5 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-2123

Price

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$ 103.11

$ 289.62 significantly less expensive

$ 392.73

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2944 points

3091 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3493 points

5120 points

46% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2761 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

2483 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2710 points

13% slightly better heavy workload score

2382 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

58.36 points

64.80 points

11% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4002 points

4215 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

515 points

1172 points

127% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2564 points

4345 points

69% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

403 points

1198 points

197% 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 GHz

3.6 GHz

79% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

2.8 GHz

3.9 GHz

39% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

26% 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

384 GiB

512 GiB

33% slightly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

547th 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 E5-2650 vs Xeon W-2123 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon W-2123 is faster than the Xeon E5-2650. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2650 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2650 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Xeon W-2123 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 E5-2650. Also, the Xeon W-2123 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-2650 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.

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 E5-2650 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.