Intel Core i9-12900K vs Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4

Core i9-12900K vs Xeon E5-2673 v4 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900K beats the Xeon E5-2673 v4 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2673 v4 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2673 v4 has slightly more cores than the Core i9-12900K. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2673 v4 has 20 cores compared to 16 cores found in the Core i9-12900K. It also has more threads than the Core i9-12900K. The Xeon E5-2673 v4 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.

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