Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3 vs Intel Core i5-12500T

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 8 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

5079 points
5% slightly better overall score
4814 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5205 points
7022 points
34% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5069 points
22% slightly better multitasking score
4142 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5131 points
28% slightly better heavy workload score
3986 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

113.01 points
116.85 points
3% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5384 points
7554 points
40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1040 points
2155 points
107% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
33% slightly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
30% slightly higher clock speed
2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz
4.4 GHz
29% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

90 W
35 W
157% 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

341st 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 E5-2640 v3 vs Core i5-12500T benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12500T is faster than the Xeon E5-2640 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2640 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-12500T has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12500T. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to 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 E5-2640 v3 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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