Intel Xeon E5-2698 v3 vs Intel Core 7 240H

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 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

6109 points

8164 points

33% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5454 points

10592 points

94% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6350 points

7427 points

16% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6447 points

7270 points

12% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

190.75 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

188.37 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

60% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz

2.5 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

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

42% many 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

700% significantly more supported memory

96 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

245th of 1,089

141st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Core (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

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

Xeon E5-2698 v3 vs Core 7 240H comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core 7 240H performs better than the Xeon E5-2698 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2698 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2698 v3 has significantly more cores than the Core 7 240H. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2698 v3 has 16 cores compared to 10 cores found in the Core 7 240H. It also has more threads than the Core 7 240H. With our hardware info, we find that the Core 7 240H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2698 v3. Also, the Core 7 240H has a significantly higher turbo speed.

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 E5-2698 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.