Intel Xeon Gold 6138 vs Intel Core i7-12700KF. 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 i7
• Generation
  1 12
• CPU group
  Intel Xeon Gold 5100/6100 Intel Core i 12000
• Predecessor
  -- Intel Core i7-11700KF

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
  2.00 GHz 3.60 GHz
• CPU Cores
  20 12
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.70 GHz 5.00 GHz
• CPU Threads
  40 20
• Hyperthreading
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Core architecture
  normal hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• A core
  -- 8x 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 i7-12700KF and Intel Xeon Gold 6138. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2666 DDR4-3200DDR5-4800
• Max. Memory
  256 GB
• ECC
  Yes No
• Memory channels
  6 2
• PCIe version
  3.0 5.0
• PCIe lanes
  48 20

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon Gold 6138 and Intel Core i7-12700KF to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

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

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon Gold 6138 and Intel Xeon Gold 6138, 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+
• L2-Cache
  -- 2.50 MB
• L3-Cache
  28.00 MB 25.00 MB
• Architecture
  Skylake Alder Lake S
• Technology
  14 nm 10 nm
• Socket
  LGA 3647 LGA 1700
• Release date
  Q3/2017 Q4/2021
• Part Number
  -- BX8071512700K