Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3 vs Intel Core i9-12900T

Xeon E5-2699 v3 vs Core i9-12900T specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2699 v3 performs better than the Core i9-12900T. Despite this, the Core i9-12900T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has slightly more cores than the Core i9-12900T. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has 18 cores compared to 16 cores found in the Core i9-12900T. It also has more threads than the Core i9-12900T. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900T. Despite this, the Core i9-12900T has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900T 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.

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