Intel Core i9-12900KF vs Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3

Core i9-12900KF vs Xeon E3-1230 v3 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-12900KF performs better than the Xeon E3-1230 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1230 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900KF has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Xeon E3-1230 v3 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1230 v3. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1230 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900KF. Despite this, the Core i9-12900KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1230 v3 outputs less heat than Core i9-12900KF 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 i9-12900KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.