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

Core i9-12900KF vs Xeon E5-2680 v4 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900KF 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-12900KF has slightly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Xeon E5-2680 v4 that has 14 cores. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2680 v4 has more threads than the Core i9-12900KF. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-12900KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2680 v4. Also, the Core i9-12900KF has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2680 v4 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.

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