Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3 vs Intel Core i7-12800H

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 14 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i7 14 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

5860 points

0.91% slightly better overall score

5807 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4866 points

7291 points

49% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6204 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

5382 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6340 points

19% slightly better heavy workload score

5311 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

192.94 points

11% slightly higher Blender score

172.49 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

40% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

4.8 GHz

33% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

145 W

45 W

222% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

42% many 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

263rd of 1,089

267th 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 E5-2697 v3 vs Core i7-12800H benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-12800H is faster than the Xeon E5-2697 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2697 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Xeon E5-2697 v3 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2697 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12800H. Despite this, the Core i7-12800H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-12800H outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2697 v3 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.