Intel Core i5-12600 vs Intel Xeon Gold 6138

Core i5-12600 vs Xeon Gold 6138 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon Gold 6138 beats the Core i5-12600 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-12600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon Gold 6138 has significantly more cores with 20 cores compared to the Core i5-12600 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12600. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-12600 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon Gold 6138. Also, the Core i5-12600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-12600 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.

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