Intel Core i5-12500 vs Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3

Core i5-12500 vs Xeon E3-1230 v3 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12500 is faster than the Xeon E3-1230 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1230 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-12500 has significantly more cores than the Xeon E3-1230 v3. Indeed, the Core i5-12500 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E3-1230 v3. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1230 v3. A Core i5-12500 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1230 v3 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i5-12500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.