Intel Core i5-12600KF vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3

Core i5-12600KF vs Xeon E5-2696 v3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12600KF beats the Xeon E5-2696 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2696 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has significantly more cores with 18 cores compared to the Core i5-12600KF that has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12600KF. The Xeon E5-2696 v3 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.

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