Intel Xeon E5-2637 v3 vs Intel Core i5-12500T

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 4 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i5 6 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

4611 points
4814 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5571 points
7022 points
26% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4299 points
3% slightly better multitasking score
4142 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4207 points
5% slightly better heavy workload score
3986 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4512 points
7554 points
67% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1142 points
2155 points
88% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
75% significantly higher clock speed
2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
4.4 GHz
18% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

135 W
35 W
285% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

40
100% significantly more pcie lanes
20

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

768 GiB
499% significantly more supported memory
128 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

379th of 1,089
365th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family
12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August
2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
Yes

Xeon E5-2637 v3 vs Core i5-12500T specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12500T is faster than the Xeon E5-2637 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2637 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-12500T has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2637 v3 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2637 v3. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2637 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12500T. Despite this, the Core i5-12500T has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12500T outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2637 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. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2637 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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