Intel Xeon W-2123 vs Intel Xeon X5647

Compare Intel Xeon W 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon X5647

Price

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$ 392.73

$ 98.02

$ 294.71 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3091 points

3170 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5120 points

35% slightly better gaming score

3778 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2483 points

2955 points

19% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2382 points

2885 points

21% slightly better heavy workload score

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Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

23% slightly higher clock speed

2.93 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

21% slightly higher turbo speed

3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W

8% slightly lower TDP

130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

33% slightly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

512 GiB

77% significantly more supported memory

288 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

526th of 1,089

516th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon W

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August

2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon W-2123 vs Xeon X5647 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon X5647 beats the Xeon W-2123 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon W-2123 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon W-2123 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon X5647. Also, the Xeon W-2123 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon W-2123 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5647 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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-2123 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.