Intel Core i7-12850HX vs Intel Xeon Platinum 8170M

Core i7-12850HX vs Xeon Platinum 8170M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon Platinum 8170M beats the Core i7-12850HX in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-12850HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon Platinum 8170M has significantly more cores with 26 cores compared to the Core i7-12850HX that has 16 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-12850HX. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-12850HX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon Platinum 8170M. In terms of cache, the Xeon Platinum 8170M has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-12850HX. The Xeon Platinum 8170M also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i7-12850HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.