Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2 vs Intel Core i7-1270P

Compare Intel 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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Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5240 points

5276 points

0.69% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5199 points

7506 points

44% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5238 points

13% slightly better multitasking score

4632 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5217 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

4500 points

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103.15 points

115.33 points

11% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

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Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

336th of 1,118

329th of 1,118

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i7

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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Xeon E5-2696 v2 vs Core i7-1270P comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-1270P performs better than the Xeon E5-2696 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2696 v2 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has more threads.

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 E5-2696 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.