Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 vs Intel Core i7-1270P

Compare Intel 10 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i7 12 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

4823 points

5276 points

9% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5321 points

7506 points

41% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4658 points

0.56% slightly better multitasking score

4632 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4614 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

4500 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

152.03 points

31% slightly higher Blender score

115.33 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

20% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.90 GHz

31% slightly higher clock speed

2.2 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2.5 MiB

9 MiB

259% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

25 MiB

38% slightly more L3 cache

18 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

363rd of 1,089

313th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Xeon E5-2666 v3 vs Core i7-1270P benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2666 v3 performs better than the Core i7-1270P. Despite this, the Core i7-1270P has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-1270P has slightly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has 10 cores. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has more threads than the Core i7-1270P. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1270P. In terms of cache, the Core i7-1270P has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E5-2666 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-1270P.

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 E5-2666 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.