Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 vs Intel Core Ultra 5 135U

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 12 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 1) 12 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

5072 points

5342 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5077 points

7441 points

46% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5065 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

4708 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5049 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

4544 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

110.36 points

121.36 points

9% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4332 points

8338 points

92% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

561 points

1948 points

247% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

71% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.7 GHz

28% slightly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

4.4 GHz

25% slightly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

100% 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

700% significantly more supported memory

96 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

356th of 1,114

320th of 1,114

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v2 Family

Core Ultra (Series 1)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August

2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR5-7467

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2697 v2 vs Core Ultra 5 135U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core Ultra 5 135U is faster than the Xeon E5-2697 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2697 v2 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Xeon E5-2697 v2 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2697 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 5 135U. Despite this, the Core Ultra 5 135U 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 E5-2697 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.