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

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

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 is faster than the Core i5-12450HX. Despite this, the Core i5-12450HX 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 i5-12450HX that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than 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 E5-2696 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.