Intel Core i5-12400F vs Intel Xeon Gold 6128

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

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Intel Xeon Gold 6128

Price

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$ 179.99

$ 30.70 slightly less expensive

$ 210.69

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7069 points

2% slightly better overall score

6872 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9794 points

48% significantly better gaming score

6615 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6210 points

7015 points

12% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6009 points

7122 points

18% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

159.61 points

34% slightly higher Blender score

118.73 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8804 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

6014 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2154 points

80% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1194 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9125 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

6063 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2218 points

88% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1178 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz

3.4 GHz

36% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

18% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

76% significantly lower TDP

115 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

139% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

200% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

768 GiB

499% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

188th of 1,089

202nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5

Xeon Scalable

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-12400F vs Xeon Gold 6128 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-12400F performs better than the Xeon Gold 6128. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon Gold 6128 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon Gold 6128 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12400F. Despite this, the Core i5-12400F has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-12400F CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon Gold 6128 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i5-12400F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.