Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3 vs Intel Xeon Gold 6254

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 12 core CPU vs Intel 2nd Generation Xeon Scalable 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon Gold 6254

Price

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$ 415.02

$ 1152.98 significantly less expensive

$ 1568.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5502 points

10336 points

87% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5267 points

7901 points

50% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5565 points

11185 points

100% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5563 points

11474 points

106% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

165.47 points

312.88 points

89% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7090 points

11007 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1072 points

1387 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz

3.09 GHz

18% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

4 GHz

14% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

135 W

48% significantly lower TDP

200 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

49% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

294th of 1,089

79th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

2nd Generation Xeon Scalable

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR4-2933

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2690 v3 vs Xeon Gold 6254 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon Gold 6254 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.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon Gold 6254 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2690 v3. Also, the Xeon Gold 6254 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-2690 v3 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon Gold 6254 CPU because of its significantly 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 E5-2690 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.