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Bottleneck Calculator
Measure CPU and GPU balance before you buy.
Power Calculator
Estimate wattage and PSU headroom.
Will It Run?
Test your hardware against popular games.
Smart Wizard
Get a complete build plan based on budget and goals.
Build Comparison
Compare complete builds side by side.
Part Comparison
Check specs, price, and value across parts.
Bottleneck Calculator
Measure CPU and GPU balance before you buy.
Power Calculator
Estimate wattage and PSU headroom.
Will It Run?
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Intel
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About This Product
The Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3 is a 14-core, 28-thread server/workstation CPU from the Haswell-EP generation. With a base clock of 2.6 GHz and a boost of 3.6 GHz, it offers strong multi-threaded performance for its price. It excels in virtualized environments, rendering, and other parallel workloads, outperforming modern consumer CPUs in core count for similar cost.
Verdict
βIdeal for budget-conscious users needing high core count for server or workstation tasks.β
Performance Benchmarks
Scores are grouped by benchmark family so it is easy to compare raw speed, threaded output, and real-world value without mixing scales.
Render Workloads
Large Sample Pool
Value & Efficiency
These derived metrics use Cinebench R23 multi-core performance to keep the value calculation consistent across the catalog.
Performance per Watt
77.0 pts/W
Performance per Dollar
319.0 pts/$
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