Intel Xeon E5-2667 v2 vs Intel Core 5 120U

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 8 core CPU vs Intel Core (Series 1) 10 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

4456 points
2% slightly better overall score
4342 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5563 points
7190 points
29% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4086 points
15% slightly better multitasking score
3534 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3980 points
17% slightly better heavy workload score
3381 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

90.62 points
5% slightly higher Blender score
85.75 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3992 points
7114 points
78% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

647 points
2111 points
226% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
10
25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz
135% significantly higher clock speed
1.4 GHz

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

40
100% significantly more pcie lanes
20

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

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

392nd of 1,089
407th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v2 Family
Core (Series 1)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August
2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR5-5200

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
No

Xeon E5-2667 v2 vs Core 5 120U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2667 v2 is faster than the Core 5 120U. Despite this, the Core 5 120U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 5 120U has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2667 v2 has 8 cores. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2667 v2 has more threads than the Core 5 120U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2667 v2 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core 5 120U.

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 E5-2667 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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