Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3 vs Intel Core i5-12600H

Xeon E5-2697 v3 vs Core i5-12600H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-12600H beats the Xeon E5-2697 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2697 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2697 v3 has slightly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i5-12600H has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12600H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-12600H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2697 v3. Also, the Core i5-12600H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12600H outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2697 v3 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.