Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3 vs Intel Core Ultra 5 125U

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 10 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 1) 12 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

23% slightly better overall score

3241 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4213 points

5004 points

18% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3900 points

43% significantly better multitasking score

2724 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3849 points

47% significantly better heavy workload score

2614 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

129.03 points

41% slightly higher Blender score

91.09 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5959 points

7587 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

985 points

1843 points

87% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

20% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

42% many more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz

3.6 GHz

38% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz

4.3 GHz

30% slightly 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

768 GiB

700% significantly more supported memory

96 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

436th of 1,089

506th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Core Ultra (Series 1)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR5-7467

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2660 v3 vs Core Ultra 5 125U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2660 v3 beats the Core Ultra 5 125U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core Ultra 5 125U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 5 125U has slightly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Xeon E5-2660 v3 that has 10 cores. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2660 v3 has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 125U. Our comparison shows that the Core Ultra 5 125U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2660 v3. Also, the Core Ultra 5 125U has a slightly 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 E5-2660 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.