Intel Xeon E5-2665 vs Intel Core Ultra 7 256V

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

5922 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4569 points

9414 points

106% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5916 points

21% slightly better multitasking score

4857 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6106 points

31% slightly better heavy workload score

4631 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

73.09 points

121.07 points

65% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2832 points

9727 points

243% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

452 points

2431 points

437% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

2.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.1 GHz

4.8 GHz

54% significantly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

400% 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

2299% significantly more supported memory

16 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

288th of 1,089

257th 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

Xeon E5-2665 vs Core Ultra 7 256V specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core Ultra 7 256V performs better than the Xeon E5-2665. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2665 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Xeon E5-2665 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2665 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 7 256V. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 256V 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.