Intel Xeon E5-2690 vs Intel Core i5-1240P

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 8 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

4263 points
1% slightly better overall score
4218 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5047 points
6354 points
25% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3997 points
9% slightly better multitasking score
3645 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3919 points
10% slightly better heavy workload score
3553 points

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

73.79 points
110.04 points
49% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz
70% significantly higher clock speed
1.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz
4.4 GHz
15% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

135 W
28 W
382% 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

384 GiB
499% significantly more supported memory
64 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

413th of 1,089
417th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family
12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February
2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
No

Xeon E5-2690 vs Core i5-1240P comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2690 beats the Core i5-1240P in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-1240P has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-1240P has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Xeon E5-2690 that has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1240P. Despite this, the Core i5-1240P has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-1240P outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2690 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 E5-2690 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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