Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4 vs Intel Core i7-12850HX

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 16 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i7 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8324 points

8926 points

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6186 points

10736 points

73% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9116 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

8383 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9598 points

16% slightly better heavy workload score

8262 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

224.42 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

218.16 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.60 GHz

23% slightly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

4.8 GHz

33% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

145 W

55 W

163% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

100% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

14 MiB

250% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

40 MiB

60% significantly more L3 cache

25 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

134th of 1,089

112th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family

12th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February

2022 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2697A v4 vs Core i7-12850HX benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-12850HX is faster than the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2697A v4 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12850HX. Despite this, the Core i7-12850HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-12850HX outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2697A v4 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-12850HX has more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-12850HX.

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 E5-2697A v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.