Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2 vs Intel Core i9-12900T

Xeon E5-1620 v2 vs Core i9-12900T comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-1620 v2 performs better than the Core i9-12900T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-12900T in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-12900T has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-1620 v2. Indeed, the Core i9-12900T has 16 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E5-1620 v2. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1620 v2. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900T. Despite this, the Core i9-12900T has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900T outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1620 v2 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 Xeon E5-1620 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.