Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs Intel Core i5-12450H

Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs Core i5-12450H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 beats the Core i5-12450H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-12450H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has significantly more cores with 18 cores compared to the Core i5-12450H that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12450H. The Core i5-12450H outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2696 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 E5-2696 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.