Intel Xeon E5-2665 vs Intel Core Ultra 7 268V

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
5659 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4569 points
8803 points
92% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5916 points
25% slightly better multitasking score
4696 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6106 points
36% slightly better heavy workload score
4485 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

73.09 points
116.39 points
59% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2832 points
9715 points
243% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

452 points
2434 points
438% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) 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
9% slightly higher clock speed
2.2 GHz

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
1100% significantly more supported memory
32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

288th of 1,089
279th 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 7 268V benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 7 268V beats the Xeon E5-2665 in overall performance. 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 7 268V.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2665 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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