Intel Core i9-12900T vs Intel Xeon Gold 6140

Core i9-12900T vs Xeon Gold 6140 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon Gold 6140 beats the Core i9-12900T in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-12900T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon Gold 6140 has slightly more cores with 18 cores compared to the Core i9-12900T that has 16 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-12900T. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon Gold 6140 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900T. Despite this, the Core i9-12900T has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-12900T CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon Gold 6140 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Xeon Gold 6140 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-12900T. Despite this, the Core i9-12900T has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Xeon Gold 6140.

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 i9-12900T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.