Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 vs Intel Core i7-12800HX

Xeon E5-2690 v4 vs Core i7-12800HX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 beats the Core i7-12800HX in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-12800HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-12800HX has slightly more cores than the Xeon E5-2690 v4. Indeed, the Core i7-12800HX has 16 cores compared to 14 cores found in the Xeon E5-2690 v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has more threads than the Core i7-12800HX. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-12800HX. Despite this, the Core i7-12800HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-12800HX outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2690 v4 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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