Intel Core i5-12490F vs Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4

Compare Intel 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 16 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

7213 points
8324 points
15% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10096 points
63% significantly better gaming score
6186 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6311 points
9116 points
44% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6106 points
9598 points
57% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

160.34 points
224.42 points
39% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
16
166% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
32
166% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
15% slightly higher clock speed
2.60 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
27% slightly higher turbo speed
3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
123% significantly lower TDP
145 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

7.5 MiB
87% significantly more L2 cache
4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

20 MiB
40 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

177th of 1,089
134th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2016 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

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Yes

Core i5-12490F vs Xeon E5-2697A v4 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12490F is faster than the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2697A v4 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i5-12490F has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12490F. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-12490F has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Also, the Core i5-12490F has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-12490F CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2697A v4 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-12490F has more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-12490F.

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 i5-12490F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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