Intel Core i9-12900KF vs Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3

Core i9-12900KF vs Xeon E5-2699 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900KF beats the Xeon E5-2699 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2699 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has slightly more cores than the Core i9-12900KF. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has 18 cores compared to 16 cores found in the Core i9-12900KF. It also has more threads than the Core i9-12900KF. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-12900KF has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2699 v3. Also, the Core i9-12900KF has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2699 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.

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