Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3 vs Intel Core i7-12800HX

Xeon E5-2699 v3 vs Core i7-12800HX comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-12800HX is faster than the Xeon E5-2699 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2699 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has slightly more cores with 18 cores whereas the Core i7-12800HX has 16 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-12800HX. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12800HX. Despite this, the Core i7-12800HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-12800HX 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.

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 E5-2699 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.