Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3 vs Intel Core 5 120U

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 10 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

3996 points

4342 points

8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4213 points

7190 points

70% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3900 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

3534 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3849 points

13% slightly better heavy workload score

3381 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

129.03 points

50% significantly higher Blender score

85.75 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5959 points

7114 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

985 points

2111 points

114% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz

85% significantly higher clock speed

1.4 GHz

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

768 GiB

700% significantly more supported memory

96 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

436th of 1,089

407th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Core (Series 1)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR5-5200

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2660 v3 vs Core 5 120U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2660 v3 performs better than the Core 5 120U. Despite this, the Core 5 120U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Xeon E5-2660 v3 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2660 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core 5 120U.

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 E5-2660 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.