Intel Core i5-11300H vs Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3

Core i5-11300H vs Xeon E5-2620 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-11300H beats the Xeon E5-2620 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2620 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2620 v3 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-11300H has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11300H. A Core i5-11300H CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2620 v3 CPU because of its 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 Core i5-11300H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.