Intel Core i9-12900HK vs Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4

Core i9-12900HK vs Xeon E5-2697A v4 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 is faster than the Core i9-12900HK. Despite this, the Core i9-12900HK has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i9-12900HK has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-12900HK. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900HK. Despite this, the Core i9-12900HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-12900HK CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2697A v4 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i9-12900HK has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i9-12900HK.

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 i9-12900HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.