Intel Xeon E5-2690 vs Intel Xeon W-2223

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-2223

Price

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$ 141.61

$ 208.34 significantly less expensive

$ 349.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4263 points

41% slightly better overall score

3013 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5047 points

4% slightly better gaming score

4813 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3997 points

61% significantly better multitasking score

2477 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3919 points

64% significantly better heavy workload score

2376 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

73.79 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

68.45 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3487 points

4602 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

586 points

1286 points

119% 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

3.6 GHz

24% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

3.9 GHz

2% 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

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

413th of 1,089

539th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

Xeon W

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

2019 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR4-2666

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2690 vs Xeon W-2223 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2690 is faster than the Xeon W-2223. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon W-2223 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Xeon W-2223 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon W-2223. Our comparison shows that the Xeon W-2223 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2690. Also, the Xeon W-2223 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon W-2223 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.