Intel Xeon Gold 5318Y vs Intel Core i5-12600K. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  Intel Xeon Gold Intel Core i5
• Generation
  3 12
• CPU group
  Intel Xeon Gold 5300/6300 Intel Core i 12000
• Predecessor
  -- Intel Core i5-11600K

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.

• Frequency
  2.10 GHz 3.70 GHz
• CPU Cores
  24 10
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.40 GHz 4.90 GHz
• CPU Threads
  48 16
• Hyperthreading
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Core architecture
  normal hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• A core
  -- 6x Golden Cove
• B core
  -- 4x Gracemont

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 Intel Iris Xe Graphics 32 (Alder Lake S)
• GPU frequency
  0.40 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 1.45 GHz
• Execution units
  32
• Shader
  256
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 16 GB
• Max. displays
  4
• Generation
  12
• DirectX Version
  12
• Technology
  10 nm
• Release date
  Q4/2021

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i5-12600K and Intel Xeon Gold 5318Y. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2933 DDR4-3200DDR5-4800
• Max. Memory
  6144 GB 256 GB
• ECC
  Yes No
• Memory channels
  8 2
• PCIe version
  4.0 5.0
• PCIe lanes
  64 20

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon Gold 5318Y and Intel Core i5-12600K to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  165 W 125 W
• TDP (PL2)
  -- 228 W / 56 s
• Tjunction max.
  -- 100 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon Gold 5318Y and Intel Xeon Gold 5318Y, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX2+
• L3-Cache
  36.00 MB 20.00 MB
• Architecture
  Ice Lake Alder Lake S
• Technology
  10 nm 10 nm
• Socket
  LGA 4189 LGA 1700
• Release date
  Q2/2021 Q4/2021
• Part Number
  -- BX8071512600K