Intel Xeon E3-1226 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

2307 points

6632 points

187% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4249 points

7128 points

67% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1762 points

6506 points

269% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1691 points

6504 points

284% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

45.99 points

188.94 points

310% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3291 points

11628 points

253% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1157 points

2268 points

96% 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

3.3 GHz

138% significantly higher clock speed

1.38 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

4.9 GHz

32% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

84 W

35 W

139% 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

658th 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

2014 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 E3-1226 v3 vs Core i9-12900T benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1226 v3 beats the Core i9-12900T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-12900T in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-12900T has significantly more cores than the Xeon E3-1226 v3. Indeed, the Core i9-12900T has 16 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E3-1226 v3. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1226 v3. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1226 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to 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 E3-1226 v3 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Xeon E3-1226 v3 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.