Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 vs Intel Core Ultra 5 235

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 12 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) 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

10867 points

82% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5278 points

13656 points

158% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6174 points

9935 points

60% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6288 points

9663 points

53% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

163.08 points

304.58 points

86% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

71% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz

3.4 GHz

36% slightly higher clock speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

66% 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

200% significantly more supported memory

256 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

260th of 1,099

73rd of 1,099

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2025 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR5-6400

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2680 v3 vs Core Ultra 5 235 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core Ultra 5 235 is faster 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 5 235 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 5 235. With our hardware info, we find that the Core Ultra 5 235 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2680 v3.

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 E5-2680 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.