Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4 vs Intel Core i5-12450HX

Xeon E5-2673 v4 vs Core i5-12450HX benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-12450HX performs better than the Xeon E5-2673 v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2673 v4 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2673 v4 has significantly more cores with 20 cores compared to the Core i5-12450HX that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12450HX. The Core i5-12450HX outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2673 v4 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 E5-2673 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.