Intel Xeon Gold 6140 vs Intel Core Ultra 5 225H

Compare Intel Xeon Scalable 18 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) 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

9575 points
10018 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6158 points
12576 points
104% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10863 points
18% slightly better multitasking score
9171 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11703 points
31% slightly better heavy workload score
8902 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

256.88 points
28% slightly higher Blender score
199.93 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8683 points
11870 points
36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1111 points
2425 points
118% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

18
28% slightly more cores
14

Threads

Number of logical processing units

36
157% significantly more threads
14

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.30 GHz
35% slightly higher clock speed
1.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
4.9 GHz
32% slightly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

48
71% significantly more pcie lanes
28

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

6
200% significantly more memory channels
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

768 GiB
499% significantly more supported memory
128 GiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

18 MiB
22 MiB
22% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

24.75 MiB
37% slightly more L3 cache
18 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

98th of 1,089
87th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon Scalable
Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August
2025 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR5-8400

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
No

Xeon Gold 6140 vs Core Ultra 5 225H specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core Ultra 5 225H performs better than the Xeon Gold 6140. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon Gold 6140 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon Gold 6140 has slightly more cores with 18 cores whereas the Core Ultra 5 225H has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 225H. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon Gold 6140 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 5 225H. Despite this, the Core Ultra 5 225H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 5 225H has slightly more L2 cache than the Xeon Gold 6140. Despite this, the Xeon Gold 6140 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 5 225H.

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 Gold 6140 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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