Intel Xeon E5-2678 v3 vs Intel Core i5-1240P

Compare Intel 12 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i5 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

5409 points

28% slightly better overall score

4218 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5325 points

6354 points

19% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5414 points

48% significantly better multitasking score

3645 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5392 points

51% significantly better heavy workload score

3553 points

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7650 points

67% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

4569 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

164.10 points

49% significantly higher Blender score

110.04 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W

28 W

328% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

303rd of 1,089

417th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Xeon E5-2678 v3 vs Core i5-1240P specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-1240P is faster than the Xeon E5-2678 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2678 v3 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Xeon E5-2678 v3 has more threads. The Core i5-1240P outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2678 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 E5-2678 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.