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Intel Xeon W-2135 vs Intel Core i7-5960X

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
Intel Xeon W-2135
Rank 2 - 83 %
Intel Core i7-5960X
Multi-core performance
Rank 2 - 99 %
Intel Xeon W-2135
Rank 1 - 100 %
Intel Core i7-5960X
Geekbench 6 Single-Core

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

Intel Xeon W-2135
6C / 12T · 4.50 GHz
1,422
Intel Core i7-5960X
8C / 16T · 3.50 GHz
1,154
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Intel Xeon W-2135
6C / 12T · 4.20 GHz
7,084
Intel Core i7-5960X
8C / 16T · 3.20 GHz
7,640
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

Intel Xeon W-2135
6C / 12T · 4.50 GHz
1,196
Intel Core i7-5960X
8C / 16T · 3.50 GHz
1,002
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

Intel Xeon W-2135
6C / 12T · 4.20 GHz
7,254
Intel Core i7-5960X
8C / 16T · 3.20 GHz
7,843
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
Single-core performance

Intel Xeon W-2135
6C / 12T · 4.50 GHz
193 cb
Intel Core i7-5960X
8C / 16T · 3.50 GHz
177 cb
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
Multi-core performance

Intel Xeon W-2135
6C / 12T · 4.20 GHz
1,382 cb
Intel Core i7-5960X
8C / 16T · 3.20 GHz
1,360 cb

More benchmarks

At a glance

Wischen
Intel Xeon W-2135Intel Core i7-5960X
FamilyIntel Xeon W (97)Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition (24)
CPU groupIntel Xeon W-2100/3100 (15)Intel Core i 5000X (3)
ArchitectureSkylake WHaswell E
Technology14 nm22 nm
SegmentEnterprise / EmbeddedDesktop
SocketLGA 2066LGA 2011-3
PredecessorIntel Core i7-4960X
SuccessorIntel Xeon W-2235

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

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Intel Xeon W-2135Intel Core i7-5960X
CPU Cores / Threads6 / 128 / 16
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturenormalnormal
Cores: 6x 8x
Frequency: 3.70 GHz 3.00 GHz
Turbo (1 Core): 4.50 GHz 3.50 GHz
Turbo (All Cores): 4.20 GHz 3.20 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache8.25 MB20.00 MB
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

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GPU nameno iGPUno iGPU
GPU frequency
CUs / Shader / /
Raytracing
Max. displays
Max. GPU Memory
Technology
Release date

NPU AI performance

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Intel Xeon W-2135Intel Core i7-5960X
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

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Intel Xeon W-2135Intel Core i7-5960X
MemoryDDR4-2666 (85.4 GB/s)
DDR4-2133 (68.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory512 GB64 GB
Memory channels44
ECCYesNo
PCIe3.0 x 483.0 x 40
PCIe Bandwidth47.3 GB/s39.4 GB/s

Thermal Management

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Intel Xeon W-2135Intel Core i7-5960X
TDP140 W140 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

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Intel Xeon W-2135Intel Core i7-5960X
Chip designMonolithicMonolithic
AES-NI
Operating systemsWindows 10, LinuxWindows 10, Linux
Instruction setx86-64 (64 bit)x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensionsSSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release dateQ3/2017Q3/2014
Release price835 $829 $
DocumentsTechnical data sheetTechnical data sheet

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Intel Xeon W-2135
Intel Xeon W-2135
6C / 12T · 3.70 - 4.50 GHz
Intel Core i7-5960X
Intel Core i7-5960X
8C / 16T · 3.00 - 3.50 GHz

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