Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3 vs Intel Core 5 210H

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 14 core CPU vs Intel Core (Series 2) 8 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

5922 points
5% slightly better overall score
5640 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5151 points
8677 points
68% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6183 points
29% slightly better multitasking score
4783 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6280 points
35% slightly better heavy workload score
4629 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

192.94 points
47% significantly higher Blender score
130.38 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

14
75% significantly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

28
133% significantly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
18% slightly higher clock speed
2.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz
4.8 GHz
33% slightly higher turbo speed

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

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

265th of 1,102
294th of 1,102

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family
Core (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August
2024 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600
DDR5-5200

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
No

Xeon E5-2697 v3 vs Core 5 210H benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2697 v3 is faster than the Core 5 210H. Despite this, the Core 5 210H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2697 v3 has significantly more cores than the Core 5 210H. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697 v3 has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core 5 210H. It also has more threads than the Core 5 210H. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2697 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core 5 210H. Despite this, the Core 5 210H 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 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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