Intel Xeon E5-2665 vs Intel Core Ultra 5 236V

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 8 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) 8 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

5548 points
5724 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4569 points
8889 points
94% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5916 points
23% slightly better multitasking score
4771 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6106 points
33% slightly better heavy workload score
4571 points

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

73.09 points
116.22 points
59% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
Identical
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
100% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz
14% slightly higher clock speed
2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.1 GHz
4.7 GHz
51% significantly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

40
400% significantly more pcie lanes
8

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

384 GiB
2299% significantly more supported memory
16 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

288th of 1,089
274th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family
Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February
2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR5-8533

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Xeon E5-2665 vs Core Ultra 5 236V specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core Ultra 5 236V is faster than the Xeon E5-2665. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2665 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Xeon E5-2665 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2665 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 5 236V. Despite this, the Core Ultra 5 236V 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 E5-2665 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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