Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 vs Intel Xeon W-2125

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 12 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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$ 1304.10

$ 429.95

$ 874.15 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5072 points

65% significantly better overall score

3067 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5077 points

5663 points

11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5065 points

116% significantly better multitasking score

2337 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5049 points

125% significantly better heavy workload score

2241 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

110.36 points

51% significantly higher Blender score

72.99 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4379 points

4853 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

564 points

1323 points

134% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4332 points

4933 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

561 points

1360 points

142% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.7 GHz

4 GHz

48% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

4.5 GHz

28% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

120 W

8% 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

768 GiB

49% significantly more supported memory

512 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

343rd of 1,089

532nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v2 Family

Xeon W

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August

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 E5-2697 v2 vs Xeon W-2125 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2697 v2 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 E5-2697 v2 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Xeon W-2125 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon W-2125. Our comparison shows that the Xeon W-2125 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2697 v2. Also, the Xeon W-2125 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon W-2125 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2697 v2 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 E5-2697 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.