Intel Core i5-12600 vs Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3

Core i5-12600 vs Xeon E3-1230 v3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12600 beats the Xeon E3-1230 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1230 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-12600 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Xeon E3-1230 v3 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1230 v3. Both the Core i5-12600 and Xeon E3-1230 v3 have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i5-12600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-12600 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.

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 i5-12600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.