Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 vs Intel Core i5-12600H

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 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

5940 points
6% slightly better overall score
5581 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5278 points
8519 points
61% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6174 points
30% slightly better multitasking score
4741 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6288 points
37% slightly better heavy workload score
4582 points

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

163.08 points
163.57 points
0.31% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
Identical
12

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
49% significantly more threads
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz
2.7 GHz
8% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz
4.5 GHz
36% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W
45 W
166% 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

254th of 1,089
286th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family
12th Generation Core i5

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 E5-2680 v3 vs Core i5-12600H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12600H beats the Xeon E5-2680 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2680 v3 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-12600H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2680 v3. Also, the Core i5-12600H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12600H outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2680 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 E5-2680 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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