Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4 vs Intel Core i9-12900HK

Xeon E5-2673 v4 vs Core i9-12900HK specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2673 v4 is faster than the Core i9-12900HK. Despite this, the Core i9-12900HK has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2673 v4 has many more cores with 20 cores compared to the Core i9-12900HK that has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-12900HK. The Core i9-12900HK 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.