Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3 vs Intel Core Ultra 5 236V

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 12 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

5502 points

5724 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5267 points

8889 points

68% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5565 points

16% slightly better multitasking score

4771 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5563 points

21% slightly better heavy workload score

4571 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

165.47 points

42% slightly higher Blender score

116.22 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz

23% slightly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

4.7 GHz

34% 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

294th of 1,089

274th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR5-8533

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2690 v3 vs Core Ultra 5 236V comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 5 236V beats the Xeon E5-2690 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2690 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core Ultra 5 236V has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 236V. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 5 236V. Despite this, the Core Ultra 5 236V has a slightly higher turbo speed.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.