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

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 8 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

3233 points

3241 points

0.25% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3840 points

5004 points

30% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3029 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

2724 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2968 points

13% slightly better heavy workload score

2614 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

60.42 points

91.09 points

50% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2763 points

7587 points

174% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

457 points

1843 points

303% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

14% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.2 GHz

3.6 GHz

63% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3 GHz

4.3 GHz

43% 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

507th of 1,089

506th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

Core Ultra (Series 1)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR5-7467

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2660 vs Core Ultra 5 125U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core Ultra 5 125U performs better than the Xeon E5-2660. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2660 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 5 125U has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2660 has 8 cores. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2660 has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 125U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core Ultra 5 125U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2660. Also, the Core Ultra 5 125U 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 E5-2660 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.