Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs Intel Core i7-12800H

Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs Core i7-12800H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12800H beats the Xeon E5-2696 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2696 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has slightly more cores with 18 cores compared to the Core i7-12800H that has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-12800H. The Core i7-12800H 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.

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.