Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2 vs Intel Core Ultra 7 256V

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 10 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

5073 points

6177 points

21% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5423 points

9748 points

79% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4932 points

5088 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4878 points

0.35% slightly better heavy workload score

4861 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

106.45 points

121.07 points

13% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4225 points

9727 points

130% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

593 points

2431 points

309% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

150% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz

36% slightly higher clock speed

2.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

4.8 GHz

33% slightly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

400% 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

4700% significantly more supported memory

16 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

357th of 1,118

254th of 1,118

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v2 Family

Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August

2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR5-8533

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2690 v2 vs Core Ultra 7 256V specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core Ultra 7 256V is faster than the Xeon E5-2690 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2690 v2 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 v2 has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core Ultra 7 256V has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core Ultra 7 256V. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2690 v2 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 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 E5-2690 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.