Intel Core i7-12700 vs Intel Xeon W-2125

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i7 12 core CPU vs Intel Xeon W 4 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

$ 318.24
$ 111.71 significantly less expensive
$ 429.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10390 points
238% significantly better overall score
3067 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12574 points
122% significantly better gaming score
5663 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9694 points
314% significantly better multitasking score
2337 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9533 points
325% significantly better heavy workload score
2241 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

259.30 points
255% significantly higher Blender score
72.99 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9492 points
95% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
4853 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1788 points
35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1323 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10978 points
122% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4933 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2375 points
74% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1360 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
200% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20
150% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz
4 GHz
21% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz
8% slightly higher turbo speed
4.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
84% significantly lower TDP
120 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
4
100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
512 GiB
300% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

78th of 1,089
532nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i7
Xeon W

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
DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
Yes

Core i7-12700 vs Xeon W-2125 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-12700 is faster than the Xeon W-2125. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon W-2125 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-12700 has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Xeon W-2125 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon W-2125. Our comparison shows that the Xeon W-2125 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12700. Despite this, the Core i7-12700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-12700 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon W-2125 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 i7-12700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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