Intel Xeon E5-2470 v2 vs Intel Core i5-12600H

Xeon E5-2470 v2 vs Core i5-12600H comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2470 v2 performs better than the Core i5-12600H. Despite this, the Core i5-12600H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-12600H has slightly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Xeon E5-2470 v2 that has 10 cores. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2470 v2 has more threads than the Core i5-12600H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-12600H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2470 v2. Also, the Core i5-12600H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12600H 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.

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 Xeon E5-2470 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.