Intel Core i5-12400F vs Intel Xeon E-2176M

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E 6 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

7069 points
96% significantly better overall score
3606 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9794 points
80% significantly better gaming score
5438 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6210 points
103% significantly better multitasking score
3050 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6009 points
105% significantly better heavy workload score
2927 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

159.61 points
82% significantly higher Blender score
87.69 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8804 points
74% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
5044 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2154 points
52% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1415 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9125 points
89% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4813 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2218 points
62% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1367 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz
2.7 GHz
8% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
Identical
4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
45 W
44% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

20
25% slightly more pcie lanes
16

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory
64 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

188th of 1,089
475th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5
Xeon E

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February
2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Core i5-12400F vs Xeon E-2176M benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-12400F performs better than the Xeon E-2176M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E-2176M in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E-2176M has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12400F. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Xeon E-2176M outputs less heat than Core i5-12400F thanks to a significantly 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 Core i5-12400F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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