Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3 vs Intel Xeon W-11855M

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 14 core CPU vs Intel Xeon W 6 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

5860 points

10% slightly better overall score

5286 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4866 points

7503 points

54% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6204 points

34% slightly better multitasking score

4615 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6340 points

41% slightly better heavy workload score

4471 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

192.94 points

58% significantly higher Blender score

121.37 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7404 points

7586 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1086 points

1985 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

133% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

133% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz

3.2 GHz

23% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

4.9 GHz

36% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

145 W

45 W

222% significantly lower TDP

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

499% significantly more supported memory

128 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

263rd of 1,089

312th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Xeon W

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2697 v3 vs Xeon W-11855M specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon W-11855M beats the Xeon E5-2697 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2697 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2697 v3 has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Xeon W-11855M that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon W-11855M. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon W-11855M has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2697 v3. Also, the Xeon W-11855M has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon W-11855M outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2697 v3 thanks to a significantly 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 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.