Intel Core i7-12700K vs Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2

Core i7-12700K vs Xeon E5-2690 v2 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12700K beats the Xeon E5-2690 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2690 v2 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-12700K has slightly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Xeon E5-2690 v2 that has 10 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-12700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2690 v2. Also, the Core i7-12700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2690 v2 outputs less heat than Core i7-12700K thanks to a significantly 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.