Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3 vs Intel Core Ultra 7 256V

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

5922 points

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5267 points

9414 points

78% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5565 points

14% slightly better multitasking score

4857 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5563 points

20% slightly better heavy workload score

4631 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

165.47 points

36% slightly higher Blender score

121.07 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7090 points

9727 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1072 points

2431 points

126% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

18% slightly higher clock speed

2.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

4.8 GHz

37% 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

257th 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 7 256V specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 7 256V 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2690 v3 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed than 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 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.