Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 vs Intel Xeon W-2135

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 12 core CPU vs Intel Xeon W 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon W-2135

Price

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$ 223.79

$ 303.49 significantly less expensive

$ 527.28

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5940 points

14% slightly better overall score

5166 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5278 points

7095 points

34% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6174 points

35% slightly better multitasking score

4541 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6288 points

43% significantly better heavy workload score

4393 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

163.08 points

48% significantly higher Blender score

110.04 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6648 points

6662 points

0.21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

941 points

1386 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6340 points

6531 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

996 points

1405 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz

3.7 GHz

47% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz

4.5 GHz

36% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W

16% slightly lower TDP

140 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

20% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

768 GiB

49% significantly more supported memory

512 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

254th of 1,089

331st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Xeon W

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2680 v3 vs Xeon W-2135 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2680 v3 beats the Xeon W-2135 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon W-2135 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has significantly more cores than the Xeon W-2135. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Xeon W-2135. It also has more threads than the Xeon W-2135. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon W-2135 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2680 v3. Also, the Xeon W-2135 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-2680 v3 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon W-2135 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.