Intel Xeon E5-2667 v2 vs Intel Xeon W-2125

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 8 core CPU vs Intel Xeon W 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 249.95
$ 180.00 significantly less expensive
$ 429.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4456 points
45% significantly better overall score
3067 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5563 points
5663 points
1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4086 points
74% significantly better multitasking score
2337 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3980 points
77% significantly better heavy workload score
2241 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

90.62 points
24% slightly higher Blender score
72.99 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4156 points
4853 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

655 points
1323 points
101% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3992 points
4933 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

647 points
1360 points
110% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
100% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
100% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz
4 GHz
21% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
4.5 GHz
12% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W
120 W
8% slightly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

40
48
20% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
Identical
4

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

768 GiB
49% significantly more supported memory
512 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

392nd of 1,089
532nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v2 Family
Xeon W

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August
2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
Yes

Xeon E5-2667 v2 vs Xeon W-2125 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2667 v2 is faster than the Xeon W-2125. Despite this, the Xeon W-2125 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2667 v2 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Xeon W-2125 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon W-2125. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon W-2125 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2667 v2. Also, the Xeon W-2125 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon W-2125 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2667 v2 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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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