Intel Core i5-12500 vs Intel Xeon Gold 6138

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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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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.78 points
268.08 points
56% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9032 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
8088 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

6
20
233% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
40
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

20
48
139% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
6
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

190th of 1,103
172nd of 1,103

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

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
Yes

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