Intel Core i3-12100 vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2

Core i3-12100 vs Xeon E5-2696 v2 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 is faster than the Core i3-12100. Despite this, the Core i3-12100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-12100. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has 12 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i3-12100. It also has more threads than the Core i3-12100.

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 Core i3-12100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.