Intel Xeon E5-2665 vs Intel Core i7-12800H

Compare Intel Xeon E5 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

5548 points
5807 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4569 points
7291 points
59% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5916 points
9% slightly better multitasking score
5382 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6106 points
14% slightly better heavy workload score
5311 points

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

73.09 points
172.49 points
136% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
14
75% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
20
25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz
Identical
2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.1 GHz
4.8 GHz
54% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

115 W
45 W
155% 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

384 GiB
499% significantly more supported memory
64 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

288th of 1,089
267th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family
12th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February
2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
No

Xeon E5-2665 vs Core i7-12800H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12800H beats the Xeon E5-2665 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2665 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-12800H has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-2665. Indeed, the Core i7-12800H has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Xeon E5-2665. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2665. According to our data, the Xeon E5-2665 and Core i7-12800H have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i7-12800H has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-12800H outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2665 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2665 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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