Intel Xeon E5-2670 vs Intel Core Ultra 7 255H

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 8 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) 16 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

2679 points

2788 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3763 points

8% slightly better gaming score

3457 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2311 points

2584 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2218 points

2521 points

13% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

69.61 points

212.94 points

205% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3052 points

13475 points

341% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

505 points

2524 points

399% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz

30% slightly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz

5.1 GHz

54% significantly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

42% many 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

200% significantly more supported memory

128 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

596th of 1,089

572nd 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

2025 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR5-8400

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2670 vs Core Ultra 7 255H benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core Ultra 7 255H is faster than the Xeon E5-2670. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2670 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 7 255H has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2670 has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2670 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 7 255H. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 255H has a significantly higher turbo speed.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2670 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.