Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 vs Intel Core i5-12450HX

Xeon E5-2680 v4 vs Core i5-12450HX specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-12450HX performs better than the Xeon E5-2680 v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2680 v4 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2680 v4 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-12450HX. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2680 v4 has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i5-12450HX. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12450HX. In terms of clock speed, the Xeon E5-2680 v4 and Core i5-12450HX are identical in this regard.

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 E5-2680 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.