Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3 vs Intel Xeon Gold 6128

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 18 core CPU vs Intel Xeon Scalable 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon Gold 6128

Price

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$ 529.95

$ 210.69

$ 319.26 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6700 points

6872 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5199 points

6615 points

27% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7270 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

7015 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7597 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

7122 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

219.38 points

84% significantly higher Blender score

118.73 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz

3.4 GHz

47% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

3.7 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

145 W

115 W

26% slightly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

20% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

768 GiB

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768 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

210th of 1,089

202nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Xeon Scalable

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR4-2666

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2699 v3 vs Xeon Gold 6128 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon Gold 6128 is faster than the Xeon E5-2699 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2699 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has significantly more cores than the Xeon Gold 6128. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has 18 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Xeon Gold 6128. It also has more threads than the Xeon Gold 6128. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon Gold 6128 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2699 v3. Also, the Xeon Gold 6128 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon Gold 6128 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2699 v3 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 E5-2699 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.