Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4 vs Intel Core Ultra 5 125H

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 16 core CPU vs Intel 14 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
39% slightly better overall score
5962 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6186 points
8201 points
32% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9116 points
71% significantly better multitasking score
5307 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9598 points
85% significantly better heavy workload score
5169 points

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

224.42 points
59% significantly higher Blender score
141.11 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
14% slightly more cores
14

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
77% significantly more threads
18

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.60 GHz
3.6 GHz
38% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz
4.5 GHz
25% 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

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
14 MiB
250% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

40 MiB
122% significantly more L3 cache
18 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

134th of 1,089
252nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family
Core Ultra (Series 1)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February
2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600
DDR5-7467

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
No

Xeon E5-2697A v4 vs Core Ultra 5 125H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 5 125H beats the Xeon E5-2697A v4 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2697A v4 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has slightly more cores than the Core Ultra 5 125H. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has 16 cores compared to 14 cores found in the Core Ultra 5 125H. It also has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 125H. With our hardware info, we find that the Core Ultra 5 125H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2697A v4. The info from our database shows that the Core Ultra 5 125H has 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 Ultra 5 125H.

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

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