Intel Core i7-12700K vs Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3

Core i7-12700K vs Xeon E5-2697 v3 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-12700K is faster than the Xeon E5-2697 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2697 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2697 v3 has slightly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i7-12700K has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-12700K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-12700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2697 v3. Also, the Core i7-12700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2697 v3 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.

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 i7-12700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.