Intel Core i5-12400F vs Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Family
  Intel Core i5 Intel Xeon E5
• CPU group
  Intel Core i 12000 Intel Xeon E5 v2
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Generation
  12 4
• Predecessor
  Intel Core i5-11400F --
• Successor
  -- Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Frequency
  2.50 GHz 3.00 GHz
• Turbo (1 Core)
  4.40 GHz 3.60 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No No

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  no iGPU no iGPU
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• h264
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No No
• VC-1
  No No
• JPEG
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2 and Intel Core i5-12400F. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-3200DDR5-4800 DDR3-1866
• Max. Memory
  128 GB
• Memory channels
  2 4
• ECC
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Core i5-12400F and Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  65 W 130 W
• TDP (PL2)
  117 W --
• Tjunction max.
  100 °C --

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Core i5-12400F and Intel Core i5-12400F, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX2+ SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
• L2-Cache
  7.50 MB --
• L3-Cache
  18.00 MB 25.00 MB
• Architecture
  Alder Lake S Ivy Bridge EP
• Technology
  10 nm 22 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• Socket
  LGA 1700 LGA 2011
• Release date
  Q1/2022 Q3/2013