Intel Xeon W-11855M vs Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3

Compare Intel Xeon W 6 core CPU vs Intel 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

5286 points

9% slightly better overall score

4823 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7503 points

41% slightly better gaming score

5321 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4615 points

4658 points

0.93% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4471 points

4614 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

121.37 points

152.03 points

25% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

10% slightly higher clock speed

2.90 GHz

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

18 MiB

25 MiB

38% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

312th of 1,089

363rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon W

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon W-11855M vs Xeon E5-2666 v3 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon W-11855M is faster than the Xeon E5-2666 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2666 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Xeon W-11855M that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon W-11855M. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon W-11855M has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2666 v3.

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 W-11855M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.