Intel Core i7-12700K vs Intel Xeon E5-2687W

Core i7-12700K vs Xeon E5-2687W comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-12700K performs better than the Xeon E5-2687W. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2687W in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12700K has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2687W has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2687W. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-12700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2687W. Also, the Core i7-12700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2687W outputs less heat than Core i7-12700K thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-12700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.