Intel Core i5-12600K vs Intel Xeon E5-2689

Core i5-12600K vs Xeon E5-2689 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12600K is faster than the Xeon E5-2689. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2689 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-12600K has slightly more cores than the Xeon E5-2689. Indeed, the Core i5-12600K has 10 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Xeon E5-2689. But they both have the same number of threads. The Xeon E5-2689 outputs less heat than Core i5-12600K thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i5-12600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.