Intel Core i9-12900K vs Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3

Core i9-12900K vs Xeon E5-2660 v3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900K beats the Xeon E5-2660 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2660 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900K has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2660 v3 has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2660 v3. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-12900K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2660 v3. Also, the Core i9-12900K has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2660 v3 outputs less heat than Core i9-12900K thanks to a significantly 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 i9-12900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.