Intel Xeon E5-2698 v3 vs Intel Core i7-12800H

Xeon E5-2698 v3 vs Core i7-12800H benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2698 v3 performs better than the Core i7-12800H. Despite this, the Core i7-12800H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2698 v3 has slightly more cores than the Core i7-12800H. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2698 v3 has 16 cores compared to 14 cores found in the Core i7-12800H. It also has more threads than the Core i7-12800H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-12800H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2698 v3. Also, the Core i7-12800H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-12800H outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2698 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 E5-2698 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.