Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 vs Intel Core i9-12900HK

Xeon E5-2690 v4 vs Core i9-12900HK benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 beats the Core i9-12900HK in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-12900HK has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900HK. Despite this, the Core i9-12900HK has a much higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900HK 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.

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 E5-2690 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.