Intel Core i5-12500 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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$ 272.22

$ 210.69

$ 61.53 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7166 points

4% slightly better overall score

6872 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9976 points

50% significantly better gaming score

6615 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6301 points

7015 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6099 points

7122 points

16% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.78 points

43% significantly higher Blender score

118.73 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9112 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

6014 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2182 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1194 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9032 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

6063 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2320 points

96% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1178 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

24% 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

182nd 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 i5-12500 vs Xeon Gold 6128 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12500 is faster 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. A Core i5-12500 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.

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