Intel Core i5-12600 vs Intel Xeon E5-2660

Core i5-12600 vs Xeon E5-2660 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12600 is faster than the Xeon E5-2660. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2660 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2660 has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-12600 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12600. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-12600 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2660. Also, the Core i5-12600 has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-12600 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2660 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 i5-12600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.