Intel Xeon E5-2470 v2 vs Intel Core i5-12450HX

Xeon E5-2470 v2 vs Core i5-12450HX comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-12450HX performs better than the Xeon E5-2470 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2470 v2 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2470 v2 has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i5-12450HX has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12450HX. According to our data, the Xeon E5-2470 v2 and Core i5-12450HX have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i5-12450HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12450HX outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2470 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 E5-2470 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.