Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3 vs Intel Core i5-12500T

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 12 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i5 6 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

5502 points
14% slightly better overall score
4814 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5267 points
7022 points
33% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5565 points
34% slightly better multitasking score
4142 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5563 points
39% slightly better heavy workload score
3986 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

165.47 points
41% slightly higher Blender score
116.85 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7090 points
7554 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1072 points
2155 points
101% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
100% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
100% significantly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
30% slightly higher clock speed
2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz
4.4 GHz
25% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

135 W
35 W
285% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

40
100% significantly more pcie lanes
20

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
499% significantly more supported memory
128 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

294th of 1,089
365th 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
Yes

Xeon E5-2690 v3 vs Core i5-12500T comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2690 v3 performs better than the Core i5-12500T. Despite this, the Core i5-12500T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i5-12500T has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12500T. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12500T. Despite this, the Core i5-12500T has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12500T outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2690 v3 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 E5-2690 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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