Intel Core i7-12700 vs Intel Xeon E-2186M

Core i7-12700 vs Xeon E-2186M comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12700 beats the Xeon E-2186M in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E-2186M in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-12700 has significantly more cores than the Xeon E-2186M. Indeed, the Core i7-12700 has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Xeon E-2186M. It also has more threads than the Xeon E-2186M. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-12700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E-2186M. Also, the Core i7-12700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E-2186M outputs less heat than Core i7-12700 thanks to a 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 i7-12700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.