Intel Core i5-12600K vs Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4

Core i5-12600K vs Xeon E5-2690 v4 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 is faster than the Core i5-12600K. Despite this, the Core i5-12600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has slightly more cores than the Core i5-12600K. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has 14 cores compared to 10 cores found in the Core i5-12600K. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12600K. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-12600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2690 v4. Also, the Core i5-12600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2690 v4 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.