Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3 vs Intel Core i5-12450HX

Xeon E5-2690 v3 vs Core i5-12450HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12450HX beats the Xeon E5-2690 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2690 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i5-12450HX has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12450HX. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-12450HX.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.