Intel Xeon E5-2690 vs Intel Xeon W-2125

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 8 core CPU vs Intel Xeon W 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon W-2125

Price

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$ 141.61

$ 288.34 significantly less expensive

$ 429.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4263 points

38% slightly better overall score

3067 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5047 points

5663 points

12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3997 points

71% significantly better multitasking score

2337 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3919 points

74% significantly better heavy workload score

2241 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

73.79 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

72.99 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3154 points

4853 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

528 points

1323 points

150% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3487 points

4933 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

586 points

1360 points

132% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz

4 GHz

37% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

4.5 GHz

18% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

135 W

120 W

12% slightly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

20% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

384 GiB

512 GiB

33% slightly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

413th of 1,089

532nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

Xeon W

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2690 vs Xeon W-2125 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2690 is faster than the Xeon W-2125. Despite this, the Xeon W-2125 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Xeon W-2125 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon W-2125. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon W-2125 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2690. Also, the Xeon W-2125 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon W-2125 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2690 thanks to a slightly 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 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.