Intel Core i5-11400 vs Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4

Core i5-11400 vs Xeon E5-2673 v4 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2673 v4 beats the Core i5-11400 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-11400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2673 v4 has significantly more cores with 20 cores compared to the Core i5-11400 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11400. A Core i5-11400 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2673 v4 CPU because of its 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 Core i5-11400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.