Intel Core i5-12400F vs Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2

Core i5-12400F vs Xeon E3-1230 V2 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12400F beats the Xeon E3-1230 V2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1230 V2 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-12400F has significantly more cores than the Xeon E3-1230 V2. Indeed, the Core i5-12400F has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E3-1230 V2. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1230 V2. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1230 V2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12400F.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-12400F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.