Intel Core i5-12500 vs Intel Xeon Silver 4110

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon Scalable 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 272.22
$ 105.71
$ 166.51 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7166 points
104% significantly better overall score
3511 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9976 points
124% significantly better gaming score
4440 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6301 points
96% significantly better multitasking score
3206 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6099 points
95% significantly better heavy workload score
3122 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.78 points
69% significantly higher Blender score
100.85 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9112 points
79% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
5071 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2182 points
215% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
691 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9032 points
95% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4624 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2320 points
179% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
829 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
53% significantly higher turbo speed
3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
30% slightly lower TDP
85 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

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

182nd of 1,089
481st 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
DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
Yes

Core i5-12500 vs Xeon Silver 4110 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12500 is faster than the Xeon Silver 4110. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon Silver 4110 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon Silver 4110 has slightly more cores with 8 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 Silver 4110 CPU because of its slightly 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.

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