Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 vs Intel Core i7-1260P

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 12 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

5940 points

34% slightly better overall score

4429 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5278 points

6220 points

17% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6174 points

57% significantly better multitasking score

3928 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6288 points

64% significantly better heavy workload score

3833 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

163.08 points

42% slightly higher Blender score

114.47 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz

19% slightly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz

4.7 GHz

42% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W

28 W

328% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

100% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

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

398th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

12th Generation Core i7

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

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2680 v3 vs Core i7-1260P benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-1260P is faster than the Xeon E5-2680 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2680 v3 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1260P. Despite this, the Core i7-1260P has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1260P 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.