Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 vs Intel Core Ultra 7 165H

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 14 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 1) 16 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

6682 points
6976 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6240 points
9640 points
54% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6819 points
10% slightly better multitasking score
6199 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6860 points
14% slightly better heavy workload score
6011 points

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

200.70 points
3% slightly higher Blender score
193.42 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

14
16
14% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

28
27% slightly more threads
22

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
85% significantly higher clock speed
1.4 GHz

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

40
42% many more pcie lanes
28

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

211th of 1,089
196th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family
Core Ultra (Series 1)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February
2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600
DDR5-7467

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
No

Xeon E5-2690 v4 vs Core Ultra 7 165H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 beats the Core Ultra 7 165H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 165H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core Ultra 7 165H has slightly more cores than the Xeon E5-2690 v4. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 165H has 16 cores compared to 14 cores found in the Xeon E5-2690 v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has more threads than the Core Ultra 7 165H. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 7 165H.

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 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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