Intel Core i5-12490F vs Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4

Core i5-12490F vs Xeon E5-2697A v4 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 is faster than the Core i5-12490F. Despite this, the Core i5-12490F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i5-12490F has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12490F. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-12490F has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Also, the Core i5-12490F has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-12490F CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2697A v4 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-12490F has more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-12490F.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-12490F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.