Intel Core i9-12900F vs Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4

Core i9-12900F vs Xeon E5-2680 v4 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900F beats the Xeon E5-2680 v4 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2680 v4 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-12900F has slightly more cores than the Xeon E5-2680 v4. Indeed, the Core i9-12900F has 16 cores compared to 14 cores found in the Xeon E5-2680 v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2680 v4 has more threads than the Core i9-12900F. In terms of clock speed, the Core i9-12900F and Xeon E5-2680 v4 are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i9-12900F has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-12900F CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2680 v4 CPU because of its 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 i9-12900F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.