Intel Xeon E5-2698 v3 vs Intel Core Ultra 7 256V

Xeon E5-2698 v3 vs Core Ultra 7 256V comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2698 v3 performs better than the Core Ultra 7 256V. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 256V has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2698 v3 has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core Ultra 7 256V that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core Ultra 7 256V. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2698 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 7 256V. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 256V has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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