Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4 vs Intel Core Ultra 7 165H

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 16 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 1) 16 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
19% slightly better overall score
6976 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6186 points
9640 points
55% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9116 points
47% significantly better multitasking score
6199 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9598 points
59% significantly better heavy workload score
6011 points

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

224.42 points
16% slightly higher Blender score
193.42 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
Identical
16

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
45% significantly more threads
22

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.60 GHz
85% significantly higher clock speed
1.4 GHz

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
18 MiB
350% 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
196th 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 7 165H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 is faster than the Core Ultra 7 165H. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 165H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 7 165H. The info from our database shows that the Core Ultra 7 165H 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 7 165H.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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