Intel Xeon E5-2650 v3 vs Intel Core i7-12800H

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 10 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

4924 points
5807 points
17% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4566 points
7291 points
59% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5084 points
5382 points
5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5215 points
5311 points
1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

112.68 points
172.49 points
53% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

10
14
40% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20
Identical
20

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz
2.4 GHz
4% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3 GHz
4.8 GHz
60% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
45 W
133% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

40
42% many more pcie lanes
28

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
1100% significantly more supported memory
64 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

355th 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

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
No

Xeon E5-2650 v3 vs Core i7-12800H comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-12800H performs better than the Xeon E5-2650 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2650 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-12800H has slightly more cores than the Xeon E5-2650 v3. Indeed, the Core i7-12800H has 14 cores compared to 10 cores found in the Xeon E5-2650 v3. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-12800H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2650 v3. Also, the Core i7-12800H has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-12800H outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2650 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 E5-2650 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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