Intel Xeon W-2145 vs Intel Core i9-12900HK

Xeon W-2145 vs Core i9-12900HK specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12900HK beats the Xeon W-2145 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon W-2145 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-12900HK has significantly more cores than the Xeon W-2145. Indeed, the Core i9-12900HK has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Xeon W-2145. It also has more threads than the Xeon W-2145. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon W-2145 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900HK. Despite this, the Core i9-12900HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-12900HK outputs less heat than Xeon W-2145 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 W-2145 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.