Intel Xeon E5-2698 v3 vs Intel Core i9-12900HK

Xeon E5-2698 v3 vs Core i9-12900HK comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12900HK is faster than the Xeon E5-2698 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2698 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2698 v3 has slightly more cores than the Core i9-12900HK. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2698 v3 has 16 cores compared to 14 cores found in the Core i9-12900HK. It also has more threads than the Core i9-12900HK. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-12900HK has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2698 v3. Also, the Core i9-12900HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900HK 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.

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 E5-2698 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.