Intel Core i7-12700 vs Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3

Core i7-12700 vs Xeon E5-2699 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12700 beats the Xeon E5-2699 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2699 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-12700. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has 18 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Core i7-12700. It also has more threads than the Core i7-12700. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-12700 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2699 v3. Also, the Core i7-12700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-12700 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2699 v3 CPU because of its 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.