Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3 vs Intel Core Ultra 7 256V

Xeon E5-2697 v3 vs Core Ultra 7 256V comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2697 v3 beats the Core Ultra 7 256V in overall performance. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 256V 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 Ultra 7 256V. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697 v3 has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core Ultra 7 256V. It also has more threads than the Core Ultra 7 256V. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2697 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 7 256V. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 256V 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.