Intel Xeon E5-2670 v3 vs Intel Core Ultra 7 256V

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 12 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

5014 points

6177 points

23% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5009 points

9748 points

94% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5003 points

5088 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4989 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

4861 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

145.84 points

20% slightly higher Blender score

121.07 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5958 points

9727 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

941 points

2431 points

158% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz

4% 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

768 GiB

4700% significantly more supported memory

16 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

361st of 1,118

254th of 1,118

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR5-8533

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2670 v3 vs Core Ultra 7 256V comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core Ultra 7 256V performs better than the Xeon E5-2670 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2670 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2670 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core Ultra 7 256V has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core Ultra 7 256V. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2670 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 7 256V. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 256V has a significantly higher turbo speed.

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 E5-2670 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.