Intel Xeon Gold 6126 vs Intel Core i5-13500T

Compare Intel Xeon Scalable 12 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i5 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

8574 points
8912 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6056 points
10575 points
74% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9545 points
13% slightly better multitasking score
8418 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

10158 points
21% slightly better heavy workload score
8343 points

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Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
14
16% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
20% slightly more threads
20

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.59 GHz
62% significantly higher clock speed
1.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
4.6 GHz
24% slightly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

48
139% significantly more pcie lanes
20

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

6
200% significantly more memory channels
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

768 GiB
499% significantly more supported memory
128 GiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

24 MiB
108% significantly more L2 cache
11.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

38.5 MiB
60% significantly more L3 cache
24 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

132nd of 1,118
119th of 1,118

Family

The product line

Xeon Scalable
13th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August
2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR5-4800

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
Yes

Xeon Gold 6126 vs Core i5-13500T specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13500T is faster than the Xeon Gold 6126. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon Gold 6126 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-13500T has slightly more cores than the Xeon Gold 6126. Indeed, the Core i5-13500T has 14 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Xeon Gold 6126. Despite this, the Xeon Gold 6126 has more threads than the Core i5-13500T. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon Gold 6126 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13500T. Despite this, the Core i5-13500T has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Xeon Gold 6126 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-13500T. The Xeon Gold 6126 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 Gold 6126 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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