Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3 vs Intel Core i7-12800H

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 8 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i7 14 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

5807 points

14% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5205 points

7291 points

40% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5069 points

5382 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5131 points

5311 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

113.01 points

172.49 points

52% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

75% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

4.8 GHz

41% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

90 W

45 W

100% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

42% many more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

768 GiB

1100% significantly more supported memory

64 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

341st of 1,089

267th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

12th Generation Core i7

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

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2640 v3 vs Core i7-12800H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12800H beats the Xeon E5-2640 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2640 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-12800H has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Xeon E5-2640 v3 that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2640 v3. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12800H. Despite this, the Core i7-12800H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-12800H 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.