Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4 vs Intel Core 7 240H

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 16 core CPU vs Intel Core (Series 2) 10 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

8324 points
1% slightly better overall score
8164 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6186 points
10592 points
71% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9116 points
22% slightly better multitasking score
7427 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9598 points
32% slightly better heavy workload score
7270 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

224.42 points
19% slightly higher Blender score
188.37 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
60% significantly more cores
10

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
100% significantly more threads
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.60 GHz
4% slightly higher clock speed
2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz
5.2 GHz
44% significantly 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

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
9.5 MiB
137% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

40 MiB
66% significantly more L3 cache
24 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

134th of 1,089
141st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family
Core (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February
2024 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600
DDR5-5600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
No

Xeon E5-2697A v4 vs Core 7 240H specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 is faster than the Core 7 240H. Despite this, the Core 7 240H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has significantly more cores than the Core 7 240H. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has 16 cores compared to 10 cores found in the Core 7 240H. It also has more threads than the Core 7 240H. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core 7 240H. Despite this, the Core 7 240H has a significantly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core 7 240H has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core 7 240H.

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 E5-2697A v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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