Intel Core i5-12500 vs Intel Xeon Gold 6138

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon Scalable 20 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

7166 points

7502 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9976 points

53% significantly better gaming score

6488 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6301 points

7892 points

25% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6099 points

8110 points

32% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.78 points

268.08 points

56% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9032 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

8088 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2320 points

110% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1102 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

233% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

233% significantly more threads

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

92% significantly lower TDP

125 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

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

18 MiB

27.5 MiB

52% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 1,114

175th of 1,114

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 6138 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon Gold 6138 performs better than the Core i5-12500. Despite this, the Core i5-12500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon Gold 6138 has significantly more cores with 20 cores whereas the Core i5-12500 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12500. A Core i5-12500 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 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 i5-12500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.