Intel Xeon E5-2698 v3 vs Intel Core Ultra 5 125H

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 16 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 1) 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

6109 points

2% slightly better overall score

5962 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5454 points

8201 points

50% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6350 points

19% slightly better multitasking score

5307 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6447 points

24% slightly better heavy workload score

5169 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

190.75 points

35% slightly higher Blender score

141.11 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

14% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

77% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz

3.6 GHz

56% significantly 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

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

252nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Core Ultra (Series 1)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

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

Xeon E5-2698 v3 vs Core Ultra 5 125H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 5 125H beats the Xeon E5-2698 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2698 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2698 v3 has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core Ultra 5 125H has 14 cores. 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 significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2698 v3. Also, the Core Ultra 5 125H has a slightly 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.