Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3 vs Intel Core i9-12900T

Compare Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 4 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i9 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2007 points

6632 points

230% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3728 points

7128 points

91% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1528 points

6506 points

325% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1468 points

6504 points

343% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

50.68 points

188.94 points

272% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3227 points

11628 points

260% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1124 points

2268 points

101% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

300% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

499% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

124% significantly higher clock speed

1.38 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

4.9 GHz

40% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

80 W

35 W

128% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

128 GiB

300% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

713th of 1,089

214th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 v3 Family

12th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E3-1220 v3 vs Core i9-12900T specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900T beats the Xeon E3-1220 v3 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1220 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-12900T has significantly more cores than the Xeon E3-1220 v3. Indeed, the Core i9-12900T has 16 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E3-1220 v3. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1220 v3. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1220 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-12900T. Despite this, the Core i9-12900T has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900T outputs less heat than Xeon E3-1220 v3 thanks to a 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. For instance, the Xeon E3-1220 v3 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.