Intel Core i7-12700F vs Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4

Core i7-12700F vs Xeon E5-2690 v4 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12700F 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has slightly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i7-12700F has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-12700F. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-12700F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2690 v4. Also, the Core i7-12700F has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-12700F CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2690 v4 CPU because of its significantly 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 i7-12700F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.