Intel Core i9-12950HX vs Intel Xeon Platinum 8170M

Core i9-12950HX vs Xeon Platinum 8170M specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon Platinum 8170M is faster than the Core i9-12950HX. Despite this, the Core i9-12950HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon Platinum 8170M has significantly more cores with 26 cores whereas the Core i9-12950HX has 16 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-12950HX. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-12950HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon Platinum 8170M. In terms of cache, the Xeon Platinum 8170M has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-12950HX. The Xeon Platinum 8170M also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 i9-12950HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.