Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 vs Intel Core Ultra 5 125H

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 12 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 1) 14 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

5940 points
5962 points
0.37% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5278 points
8201 points
55% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6174 points
16% slightly better multitasking score
5307 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6288 points
21% slightly better heavy workload score
5169 points

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

163.08 points
15% slightly higher Blender score
141.11 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
14
16% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
33% slightly more threads
18

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz
3.6 GHz
44% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz
4.5 GHz
36% slightly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

40
42% many more pcie lanes
28

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

254th of 1,089
252nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family
Core Ultra (Series 1)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August
2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600
DDR5-7467

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
No

Xeon E5-2680 v3 vs Core Ultra 5 125H specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core Ultra 5 125H performs better than the Xeon E5-2680 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2680 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 5 125H has slightly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has 12 cores. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 125H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core Ultra 5 125H has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2680 v3. Also, the Core Ultra 5 125H has a slightly 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 E5-2680 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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