Intel Core i5-12400 vs Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs Intel 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7038 points

45% significantly better overall score

4823 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9694 points

82% significantly better gaming score

5321 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6210 points

33% slightly better multitasking score

4658 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6013 points

30% slightly better heavy workload score

4614 points

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5938 points

23% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

4806 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

164.62 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

152.03 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz

2.90 GHz

16% slightly higher clock speed

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

18 MiB

25 MiB

38% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

190th of 1,089

363rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Core i5-12400 vs Xeon E5-2666 v3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12400 is faster than the Xeon E5-2666 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2666 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i5-12400 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12400. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12400.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-12400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.