Intel Xeon E5-2687W v4 vs Intel Core Ultra 7 256V

Xeon E5-2687W v4 vs Core Ultra 7 256V benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2687W v4 performs better than the Core Ultra 7 256V. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 256V has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2687W v4 has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core Ultra 7 256V that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core Ultra 7 256V. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2687W v4 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 7 256V. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 256V has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 256V has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2687W v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2687W v4 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 7 256V.

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 E5-2687W v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.