Intel Xeon W-2123 vs Intel Xeon X5670

Compare Intel Xeon W 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon X5670

Price

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$ 392.73

$ 88.88

$ 303.85 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3091 points

3118 points

0.87% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5120 points

20% slightly better gaming score

4250 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2483 points

2751 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2382 points

2664 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

64.80 points

25% slightly higher Blender score

51.81 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4215 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2417 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1172 points

149% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

470 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4345 points

88% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2310 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1198 points

143% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

491 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

22% slightly higher clock speed

2.93 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

17% slightly higher turbo speed

3.33 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W

95 W

26% slightly lower TDP

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

522nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon W

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August

2010 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 X5670 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon X5670 beats the Xeon W-2123 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon W-2123 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon X5670 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Xeon W-2123 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon W-2123. Our comparison shows that the Xeon W-2123 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon X5670. Also, the Xeon W-2123 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon X5670 outputs less heat than Xeon W-2123 thanks to a 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.