Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 vs Intel Core i7-12800H

Compare Intel 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

4823 points
5807 points
20% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5321 points
7291 points
37% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4658 points
5382 points
15% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4614 points
5311 points
15% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

152.03 points
172.49 points
13% slightly 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

2.90 GHz
20% slightly higher clock speed
2.4 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2.5 MiB
4 MiB
60% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

25 MiB
4% slightly more L3 cache
24 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

363rd of 1,089
267th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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12th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

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No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

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No

Xeon E5-2666 v3 vs Core i7-12800H specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-12800H is faster than the Xeon E5-2666 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2666 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-12800H has slightly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Xeon E5-2666 v3 that has 10 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-12800H. In terms of cache, the Core i7-12800H 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 i7-12800H.

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.

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