Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs Intel Core i9-12900T

Compare Intel 18 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i9 16 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

6495 points
6632 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5724 points
7128 points
24% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6803 points
4% slightly better multitasking score
6506 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6991 points
7% slightly better heavy workload score
6504 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

231.70 points
22% slightly higher Blender score
188.94 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8186 points
11628 points
42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1134 points
2268 points
100% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

18
12% slightly more cores
16

Threads

Number of logical processing units

36
49% significantly more threads
24

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

145 W
35 W
314% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

221st of 1,089
214th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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12th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

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Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

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Yes

Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs Core i9-12900T comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-12900T performs better than the Xeon E5-2696 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2696 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has slightly more cores with 18 cores compared to the Core i9-12900T that has 16 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-12900T. The Core i9-12900T outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2696 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 E5-2696 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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