Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 vs Intel Core i5-12500H

Xeon E5-2676 v3 vs Core i5-12500H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12500H beats the Xeon E5-2676 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2676 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Xeon E5-2676 v3 has more threads. The Core i5-12500H outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2676 v3 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 E5-2676 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.