Intel Xeon W-2140B vs Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)

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Intel Xeon W-2140B CPU1 vs CPU2 Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)
Intel Xeon W-2140B Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)

CPU comparison

Intel Xeon W-2140B or Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU) - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results.

The Intel Xeon W-2140B has 8 cores with 16 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 4.50 GHz. Up to 512 GB of memory is supported in 4 memory channels. The Intel Xeon W-2140B was released in Q3/2017.

The Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU) has 24 cores with 24 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.50 GHz. The CPU supports up to 192 GB of memory in 8 memory channels. The Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU) was released in Q2/2023.
Intel Xeon W (83) Family Apple M series (25)
Intel Xeon W-2100/3100 (15) CPU group Apple M2 (8)
6 Generation 2
Skylake W Architecture M2
Desktop / Server Segment Mobile
-- Predecessor Apple M1 Ultra (64-GPU)
-- Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Xeon W-2140B is a 8 core processor with a clock frequency of 3.20 GHz (4.50 GHz). The Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU) has 24 CPU cores with a clock frequency of 0.66 GHz (3.50 GHz).

Intel Xeon W-2140B Characteristic Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)
8 Cores 24
16 Threads 24
normal Core architecture hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Yes Hyperthreading No
No Overclocking ? No
3.20 GHz (4.50 GHz) A-Core 0.66 GHz (3.50 GHz)
16x Avalanche
-- B-Core 0.60 GHz (2.42 GHz)
8x Blizzard

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.

Intel Xeon W-2140B Characteristic Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)
-- AI hardware Apple Neural Engine
-- AI specifications 32 Neural cores @ 31.6 TOPS

Internal Graphics

The integrated graphics unit of a processor is not only responsible for the pure image output on the system, but can also significantly increase the efficiency of the system with the support of modern video codecs.

no iGPU GPU Apple M2 Ultra (76 Core)
GPU frequency 0.45 GHz
-- GPU (Turbo) 1.40 GHz
-- GPU Generation 2
Technology 5 nm
Max. displays 8
-- Compute units 1216
-- Shader 9728
No Hardware Raytracing No
No Frame Generation No
-- Max. GPU Memory 192 GB
-- DirectX Version --

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

no iGPU GPU Apple M2 Ultra (76 Core)
No Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) Decode / Encode
No Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) Decode / Encode
No Codec h264 Decode / Encode
No Codec VP9 Decode / Encode
No Codec VP8 Decode
No Codec AV1 No
No Codec AVC Decode
No Codec VC-1 Decode
No Codec JPEG Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

The Intel Xeon W-2140B supports a maximum of 512 GB of memory in 4 memory channels. The Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU) can connect up to 192 GB of memory in 8 memory channels.

Intel Xeon W-2140B Characteristic Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)
DDR4-2666 Memory LPDDR5-6400
512 GB Max. Memory 192 GB
4 (Quad Channel) Memory channels 8 (Octa Channel)
85.4 GB/s Max. Bandwidth 819.1 GB/s
Yes ECC No
-- L2 Cache 72.00 MB
11.00 MB L3 Cache --
3.0 PCIe version 4.0
48 PCIe lanes 64
47.3 GB/s PCIe Bandwidth 126.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of a processor specifies the required cooling solution. The Intel Xeon W-2140B has a TDP of 105 W, that of the Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU) is 80 W.

Intel Xeon W-2140B Characteristic Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)
105 W TDP (PL1 / PBP) 80 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up --
-- TDP down --
-- Tjunction max. 100 °C

Technical details

The Intel Xeon W-2140B has a 11.00 MB cache, while the Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU) cache has a total of 72.00 MB.

Intel Xeon W-2140B Characteristic Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)
14 nm Technology 5 nm
Monolithic Chip design Chiplet
x86-64 (64 bit) Instruction set (ISA) Armv8.5-A (64 bit)
SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512 ISA extensions Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
LGA 2066 Socket --
VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d Virtualization Apple Virtualization Framework
Yes AES-NI Yes
Windows 10, Linux Operating systems macOS, iPadOS
Q3/2017 Release date Q2/2023
-- Release price --
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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 2 CPU benchmarks
Intel Xeon W-2140B (54%)
Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU) (100%)
⌀ Multi core performance in 3 CPU benchmarks
Intel Xeon W-2140B (34%)
Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU) (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Xeon W-2140B Intel Xeon W-2140B
8C 16T @ 4.50 GHz
1125 (58%)
Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU) Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)
24C 24T @ 3.50 GHz
1940 (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Xeon W-2140B Intel Xeon W-2140B
8C 16T @ 3.80 GHz
8457 (30%)
Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU) Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)
24C 24T @ 3.50 GHz
27860 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.
Intel Xeon W-2140B Intel Xeon W-2140B
8C 16T @ 4.50 GHz
1338 (50%)
Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU) Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)
24C 24T @ 3.50 GHz
2689 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.
Intel Xeon W-2140B Intel Xeon W-2140B
8C 16T @ 3.80 GHz
7785 (36%)
Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU) Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)
24C 24T @ 3.50 GHz
21450 (100%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.
Intel Xeon W-2140B Intel Xeon W-2140B
8C 16T @ 3.80 GHz
17361 (36%)
Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU) Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)
24C 24T @ 3.50 GHz
48560 (100%)

Cinebench 2024 (Single-Core)

The Cinebench 2024 benchmark is based on the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxon's 3D program Cinema 4D. The benchmark runs are each 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.
Intel Xeon W-2140B Intel Xeon W-2140B
8C 16T @ 4.50 GHz
0 (0%)
Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU) Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)
24C 24T @ 3.50 GHz
126 (100%)

Cinebench 2024 (Multi-Core)

The Multi-Core test of the Cinebench 2024 benchmark uses all cpu cores to render using the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxons Cinema 4D. The benchmark run is 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.
Intel Xeon W-2140B Intel Xeon W-2140B
8C 16T @ 4.50 GHz
0 (0%)
Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU) Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)
24C 24T @ 3.50 GHz
1918 (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Xeon W-2140B Intel Xeon W-2140B
8C 16T @ 4.50 GHz
0 (0%)
Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU) Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)
24C 24T @ 3.50 GHz
1695 (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Xeon W-2140B Intel Xeon W-2140B
8C 16T @ 3.80 GHz
0 (0%)
Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU) Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)
24C 24T @ 3.50 GHz
28570 (100%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
Intel Xeon W-2140B Intel Xeon W-2140B
@ 0.00 GHz
0 (0%)
Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU) Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)
Apple M2 Ultra (76 Core) @ 1.40 GHz
26980 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Xeon W-2140B Intel Xeon W-2140B
8C 16T @ 4.50 GHz
193 (100%)
Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU) Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)
24C 24T @ 3.50 GHz
0 (0%)

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Xeon W-2140B Intel Xeon W-2140B
8C 16T @ 3.80 GHz
1745 (100%)
Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU) Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)
24C 24T @ 3.50 GHz
0 (0%)

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)

Efficiency of the processor under full load in the Cinebench R23 (multi-core) benchmark. The benchmark result is divided by the average energy required (CPU package power in watts). The higher the value, the more efficient the CPU is under full load.
Intel Xeon W-2140B Intel Xeon W-2140B
3.20 GHz
0 (0%)
Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU) Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)
28,570 CB R23 MC @ 80 W
357 (100%)

Performance for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. The performance is given in the number (trillions) of arithmetic operations per second (TOPS).
Intel Xeon W-2140B Intel Xeon W-2140B
8C 16T @ 3.20 GHz
0 (0%)
Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU) Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)
24C 24T @ 0.66 GHz
31.6 (100%)

Devices using this processor

Intel Xeon W-2140B Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)
Apple iMac Pro (2017) Unknown

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