Intel Xeon E5-2678 v3 vs Intel Core Ultra 7 268V

Compare Intel 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

5409 points

5659 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5325 points

8803 points

65% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5414 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

4696 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5392 points

20% slightly better heavy workload score

4485 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

164.10 points

40% slightly higher Blender score

116.39 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6701 points

9715 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1012 points

2434 points

140% 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

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Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

303rd of 1,089

279th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-8533

Xeon E5-2678 v3 vs Core Ultra 7 268V comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core Ultra 7 268V performs better than the Xeon E5-2678 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2678 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2678 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core Ultra 7 268V has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core Ultra 7 268V.

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 E5-2678 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.