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

Core i5-12600KF vs Xeon E5-2690 v4 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12600KF beats the Xeon E5-2690 v4 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2690 v4 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has slightly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Core i5-12600KF that has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12600KF. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-12600KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2690 v4. Also, the Core i5-12600KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2690 v4 outputs less heat than Core i5-12600KF thanks to a slightly 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 i5-12600KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.