Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3 vs Intel Core i5-12500T

Xeon E5-2699 v3 vs Core i5-12500T comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 beats the Core i5-12500T in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-12500T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has significantly more cores with 18 cores whereas the Core i5-12500T has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12500T. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-12500T. Despite this, the Core i5-12500T has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-12500T outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2699 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 E5-2699 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.