Intel Core i3-12100F vs Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4

Core i3-12100F vs Xeon E5-2673 v4 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2673 v4 performs better than the Core i3-12100F. Despite this, the Core i3-12100F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2673 v4 has significantly more cores with 20 cores whereas the Core i3-12100F has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-12100F. A Core i3-12100F CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2673 v4 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i3-12100F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.