Intel Core i5-12490F vs Intel Xeon Gold 6138

Core i5-12490F vs Xeon Gold 6138 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon Gold 6138 is faster than the Core i5-12490F. Despite this, the Core i5-12490F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon Gold 6138 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-12490F. Indeed, the Xeon Gold 6138 has 20 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-12490F. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12490F. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-12490F has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon Gold 6138. Also, the Core i5-12490F has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-12490F CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon Gold 6138 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 Xeon Gold 6138 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-12490F. The Xeon Gold 6138 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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